A plant breeder is raising many varieties of plants. As a part of the breeding program, he raises pure line varieties by continuous inbreeding over several generations – one with red flowers and another with white flowers. How can Mendel's laws be demonstrated by hybridization between these varieties?
1. | Set up a monohybrid cross and determine if your F2 results are predicted by a 3:1 ratio based on the law of segregation. |
2. | Set up a dihybrid cross and determine if your F2 results are predicted by a 9:3:3:1 ratio based on the law of independent assortment. |
3. | Set a test cross to demonstrate that your traits breed true. |
4. | Set up a two-point test cross to demonstrate that your genes are linked. |
Which of the following observations regarding a monohybrid cross cannot be explained with the Law of Dominance?
1. | Expression of only one of the parental characters in F1 |
2. | Expression of both parental characters in F2 |
3. | 3:1 phenotypic ratio in F2 |
4. | A gamete receives only one of the two-unit factors present in the parent |
It is said that Mendel proposed that the factor controlling any character is discrete and independent. His proposition was based on the:
1. | results of the F3 generation of a cross |
2. | observations that the offspring of a cross made between the plants having two contrasting characters shows only one character without any blending |
3. | self-pollination of F1 offspring |
4. | cross-pollination of F1 generation with recessive parent |
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1. | determine whether the individual is heterozygous or homozygous dominant |
2. | determine whether a gene is located on a sex chromosome or an autosome |
3. | differentiate between incomplete dominance and codominance |
4. | identify linkage between two genes |
1. | ¼ | 2. | 2/3 |
3. | ½ | 4. | ¾ |