Biology Forum Genetics Genetic Question help?

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    • #16123
      lyte22
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      Hi i’ve been trying to work this question out but i’m getting kinda stuck..

      The kernel on a cob can either be purple (dominant colour) or yellow (reccesive colour) or pink (intermediate colour). The colour purple is the product of a two step reaction with Pink being the intermediate product. You counted kernels on F2 cobs.

      Questions:
      1) How many purple Kernel would you expect to find
      2) How many Pink Kernel would you expect to find
      3) How many Yellow Kernel would you expect to find?
      4) What colour would be the double homozygous recessive cob?
      5) What colour would the F1 cob be?

    • #109808
      JackBean
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      1-3) from 0 to 100% 🙄 unless you tell us more info, we can hardly guess

      4) what is your opinion? That is not that hard, is it?

      5) as 1-3

    • #109809
      lyte22
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      Lmao i forgot to the numbers!

      its 1600 kernels on the F2 cob

      For the answers 1-5 i could choose:
      900, 800, yellow, pink and purple, purple, 300, 100 and 400

    • #109817
      JackBean
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      ?

    • #109835
      girlie21
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      I KNOW I’VE BEEN ALSO STUCK ON EXACTLY THE SAME QUESTION!!
      1. How many purple kernel would you expect to find?
      2. How many pink kernel would you expect to find?
      3. How many yellow kernel would you expect to find?
      4. What colour would the double homozygous recessive cob be
      5. What colour would the F1 cob be
      900
      800
      100
      PINK AND PURPLE
      PINK
      400
      yellow
      300
      purple

    • #109852
      JackBean
      Participant

      that’s nice we know number of F2, but unless you tell us more about parents, we still can hardly guess

    • #109945
      sudeepa
      Participant

      There are two options either Dominant epistasis with ratio 12:3:1 or Recessive epistasis with ratio 9:3:4.

      According to the options given it is Recessive epistasis. the ans are

      1. How many purple kernel would you expect to find?
      Ans. 900
      2. How many pink kernel would you expect to find?
      Ans. 300
      3. How many yellow kernel would you expect to find?
      Ans. 400
      4. What colour would the double homozygous recessive cob be?
      Ans. Yellow
      5. What colour would the F1 cob be?
      Ans. Purple

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