Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.
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Chapter 3, Problem 38P
You picked up two mice (one female and one male) that had escaped from experimental cages in the animal facility. One mouse is yellow in color, and the other is brown agouti. (Agouti hairs have bands of yellow, while non-agouti hairs are solid-colored.) You know that this mouse colony has animals with different alleles at only three coat color genes: the agouti (A) or non-agouti (a) or yellow (A ) alleles of the A gene (A > A > a; A is a recessive lethal), the black (B) or brown (b) alleles of the B gene (B > b), and the albino (c) or non-albino (C) alleles of the C gene (C > c; cc is epistatic to all other
| a. | What alleles of the A, B, and C genes are present in the two mice you caught? |
| b. | After raising several litters from these two parents, you have many offspring. How many different coat color phenotypes (in total) do you expect to see expressed in the population of offspring? What are the phenotypes and corresponding genotypes? |
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Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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