Drosophila linkage relationship

An experiment was done to determine the linkage relationship of three genes (a,b,c) in drosophila melanogaster. Homozygous females phenotypically a,c were crossed with homozygous males phenotypically b. The F1 females were all wild-type in apearance and the F1 males were all a,c. The F females and males were crossed t ...continues

Restriction sites

In a restriction mapping experiment using the plasmid P (ST), you cleave the circular plasmid with the restriction enzymes Xbal, Asp718, BamHI and EcoRI individually and in various combinations with each other. You obtain DNA fragments with the following sizes: Enzymes used size of DNA fragments (bp) BamHI, EcoR ...continues

Chi squared analysis

In corn, colored aleurone (R) is dominant to colorless aleurone (r), and green plant color (G) is dominant to yellow plant color (g). two plants, each heterozygous for both characteristics, are testcrossed to homozygous recessives, and their progeny are combined to produce the following totals: colored green 100 colored ye ...continues

DNA Questions

A. Biotechnology cannot be used to: ___________ a. Produce large quantities of particular human proteins. b. Produce effective and safe vaccines. c. Identify human fetuses with particular genetic diseases. d. Alter food plants to increase yield. e. Alter the intelligence levels of newborn infants. B. For these ...continues

Determining the mode of inheritance and gene linkage for drosophila crosses...

7. Conclusion and discussion sections: a. how many genes are involved in creating the eye pigment (based on the provided data). Mode of inheritance - are the genes autosomal or sex-linked and why, recessive or dominant and why, and are some genes linked and why. b. Hypothesis statement based on conclusions about link ...continues

Mendel Genetics Problems

Please see attached word document. --- Assignment Part I - Mendelian Genetics (7.5 pts). Information on the analysis of crosses and Chi-square statistics are available under the supplemental reading section of the course website. Below is the Chi-square probability table at 0.05 (5%) Degrees of Freedom Reject the null ...continues

Complementation

You are handed six yeast strains: three strains (a, b, c) have a defect in the LEU1 complementation group, the other three (d, e, f) have defects in the LEU4 complementation group (LEU being an abbreviation for leucine). if you plate diploid cells, created from mating the haploid strains together, on a minimal media plate with ...continues

Polygenic traits

In the future, aliens who have invaded earth are conducting a survey of teenagers. when examining body modifications, they conclude that piercing is a polygenic trait. they reached this conclusion by examining only the number of piercings in a teenager, and the number of piercings in their parents. why might they conclude tha ...continues

Plant Crosses

A cross between two inbred plants that had mean seed weights of 20 and 40 grams, respectively, produced an F1 generation with seeds weighing an average of 30 grams each. an F1 x F1 cross produced 1000 plants: 3 had seeds weighing 20 grams, 5 had seeds weighing 40 grams, and the others produced seeds with weights varying between ...continues

Dominant traits/recessive traits

Pattern baldness in humans is controlled by a single autosomal locus with two alleles (B and B'), but pattern baldness is a sex-influenced phenotype: baldness is dominant in males (BB and BB' males become bald), but recessive in females (only BB females become bald). if a population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for this lo ...continues