grad2013

You are studying genetics in domestic chickens (Gallus gallus) and you find a mutant with no wings. Assume that the mutant wingless phenotype is due to a mutation at a single gene. In contrast to mammals, chickens use ZZ/ZW sex-linkage. That is, male chic...

Red-green Color Blindness and Hemophilia A are both sex-linked traits in humans. Both genes are on the X-chromosome and are tightly linked. Consider the pedigree below. Individual 1 is homozygous normal. Individual 2 is both red-green color blind and a he...

• So the mother is normal XX The father is color blind XiY (the i indicates that the gene is affected) To be color blind and hemophiliac a woman needs to have XiXi and a man needs XiY This is both the same for color blindness and hemophilia. A woman can a...

• a) You cross a pure breeding male with normal wings to a pure breeding wingless female. All of the F1 offspring have normal wings. Based on this result, which of the following statements is true: a-) Therefore Cross of Parent AA X aa or ZAZA X ZaW there...