BIOLOGY 171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Zygosity, Mitosis, Chromosome
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Biology 171 home work 4 transmission of genetic material. In peas, seeds can be green or yellow, and green is dominant. The gene for this aspect of seed color is found on the pea chromosome #5. Plants can be full height or half height, and full height is dominant. The gene for this aspect of plant height is found on pea chromosome #4. Use g to denote the green allele and g to denote the yellow allele. Use h to denote the full height allele and h to denote the half height allele. Mitosis: do the genes for seed color and plant height assort independently during mitosis, consider a cell in the leaf of a pea plant. Although chromosomes are not condensed prior to mitosis, you can draw them as lines for simplicity: draw a diagram of this leaf cell with chromosomes #4 and #5.
