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Chapter 3, Problem 10QP
Crossing Pea Plants: Mendel’s Study of Single Traits
If you are informed that tune deafness is a heritable trait, and that a tune deaf couple is expecting a child, can you conclude that the child will be tune deaf?
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Flower position, stem length, and seed shape were three of the traits that Mendel studied. Each is controlled by an independently assorting gene and has dominant and recessive expression as follows:
• Axial inflorescence (flowers originate along the stems) is dominant over terminal (flowers on top of the stem).
Long (“tall") stem is dominant over short stem (“dwarf").
• Round seed is dominant over wrinkled.
Let's use the symbols Fa/fa for genes determining axial vs. terminal (fa from "false umbel," a type of inflorescence); Le/le for tall vs. dwarf (le is for length); R/r for round vs. wrinkled seeds (the Latin word
rugosus means wrinkled).
Notice that the phenotype "tall plant" may be conferred by the genotype Lele or Lele; this can be abbreviated as Le-, where the dash represents the alternative allele. The homozygous lele will show the
recessive phenotype. Since…
Mendel's independent assortment: Draw a cell with a diploid chromosome number of 4. The gene controlling flower color (pink/white) is not linked to the gene for height (short/tall).
Draw the cells and chromosomes in the process of meiosis (meiosis I followed by meiosis II, not all individual stages) in a plant clearly heterozygous for both traits. Be sure your answer demonstrates your understanding of Mendel’s 2nd law of inheritance.
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