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Christopher P. Austin, M. Featured Content. Mendel's principles of inheritance. How do hidden genes pass from one generation to the next? Although an individual gene may code for a specific physical trait, that gene can exist in different forms, or alleles.
One allele for every gene in an organism is inherited from each of that organism's parents. In some cases, both parents provide the same allele of a given gene, and the offspring is referred to as homozygous "homo" meaning "same" for that allele. In other cases, each parent provides a different allele of a given gene, and the offspring is referred to as heterozygous "hetero" meaning "different" for that allele. Alleles produce phenotypes or physical versions of a trait that are either dominant or recessive.
The dominance or recessivity associated with a particular allele is the result of masking, by which a dominant phenotype hides a recessive phenotype. By this logic, in heterozygous offspring only the dominant phenotype will be apparent. The relationship of alleles to phenotype: an example. Dominance, breeding experiments, and Punnett squares. Figure 4: A brown fly and a black fly are mated.
Figure 5: A Punnett square. Figure 6: Each parent contributes one allele to each of its offspring. Thus, in this cross, all offspring will have the Bb genotype.
Figure 7: Genotype is translated into phenotype. In this cross, all offspring will have the brown body color phenotype. The phenomenon of dominant phenotypes arising from the allele interactions exhibited in this cross is known as the principle of uniformity, which states that all of the offspring from a cross where the parents differ by only one trait will appear identical.
How can a breeding experiment be used to discover a genotype? Breeding the flies shown in this Punnett square will determine the distribution of phenotypes among their offspring. If the female parent has the genotype BB, all of the offspring will have brown bodies Figure 9, Outcome 1. In this way, the genotype of the unknown parent can be inferred. Figure 9. Figure The phenotypic ratio is brown body: black body. This observation forms the second principle of inheritance, the principle of segregation, which states that the two alleles for each gene are physically segregated when they are packaged into gametes, and each parent randomly contributes one allele for each gene to its offspring.
Can two different genes be examined at the same time? Figure The possible genotypes for each of the four phenotypes. The dihybrid cross: charting two different traits in a single breeding experiment. Figure These are all of the possible genotypes and phenotypes that can result from a dihybrid cross between two BbEe parents.
On the upper left, the female parent genotype is uppercase B lowercase b, uppercase E lowercase e. Uppercase B, uppercase E is labeled to the left of the top quadrant; lowercase b, lowercase e is labeled outside the second left quadrant; uppercase B, lowercase e is labeled outside the third left quadrant; and lowercase b, uppercase E is labeled outside the fourth left quadrant.
On the upper right, the male parent genotype is also uppercase B lowercase b, uppercase E lowercase e. Uppercase B, uppercase E is labeled to the right of the top quadrant; lowercase b, lowercase e is labeled to the outside the second right quadrant; uppercase B, lowercase e is labeled outside the third right quadrant, and lowercase b, uppercase E is labeled outside the fourth right quadrant.
The offsprings' genotype and phenotype is represented in each of the cells of the Punnett square. Nine of the 16 cells contain brown-bodied flies with red eyes. Of these nine flies, one has the genotype uppercase B, uppercase B, uppercase E uppercase E; four have the genotype uppercase B lowercase b, uppercase E lowercase e; two have the genotype uppercase B uppercase B, uppercase E lowercase e; and two have the genotype uppercase B lowercase b, uppercase E uppercase E.
Three cells contain brown-bodied flies with brown eyes. Of these three flies, one has the genotype uppercase B uppercase B, lowercase e lowercase e and two have the genotype uppercase B lowercase b, lowercase e lowercase e. Three cells contain black-bodied flies with red eyes. Of these three flies, one has the genotype lowercase b lowercase b, uppercase E uppercase E and two have the genotype lowercase b lowercase b, uppercase E lowercase e. Human genetics and patterns of inheritance.
Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; chap 1. Korf BR. Principles of genetics. Goldman-Cecil Medicine. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; chap Updated by: Anna C.
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