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In a type of bird color on the feathers is controlled by two different genes. FF birds make black pigments, Ff gray pigment, and ff no pigment, resulting in white feathers. Another gene controls how the pigment is applied to the feathers. SS birds have color on the whole feather, Ss feathers are speckled with white, and ss have all white feathers. You cross FFss birds to ffSS birds. a) What phenotype are the parental strains? FFss ______________ ffSS ________________ b) What is the phenotype and genotype of the F1’s? ___________________________________ c) What fraction of the F2’s will be white?

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#2. In the rat, the gene for the pigment (P) is dominant to no pigment (p). The gene for black

(B) is dominant to the gene for cream (b). If a pigment gene (P) is absent, genes B and b are inoperative or non-functional, resulting in albino phenotype.

A) What kind of inheritance patterns is this? Provide a brief explanation.
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Problem B. You carry out a dihybrid cross between a red-flowered rose with long pollen grains (A1A1 LL) and a white-flowered rose with round pollen (A2A2 l l). The flower color gene (A) shows incomplete dominance, and long pollen is completely dominant to round pollen. The genes for these traits are on different chromosomes so assort independently
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st+ e
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st e+
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8. With what phenotype would you cross this F1 to measure recombination frequency?

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A) B
B) b
C) B or b
D) Bb, BB, bb
E) Bb

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A. Phenotypic plasticity is only favored when the parental environment is a good predictor of the offspring environment
B. Since the trait expression of a genotype varies across environments, it cannot respond to selection
C. A variable environment is required for phenotypic plasticity to be selected for
D. A single trait can only ever be plastic or non-plastic within a species
E. Phenotypic plasticity can only occur within a single generation, never across generations

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C. Binomial
D. Normal
E. Continuous

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A. It is not in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
B. It is under balancing selection
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C. There is selection acting on the population
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