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12 March, 16:49

Croaking in frogs is controlled by one gene with a pair of alleles - dominant uttering (R) and recessive muttering (r). Eye color is inherited by epistatic interaction of two genes with the following possible phenotypes: A_B_ - blue eyes; A_bb - purple eyes and aaB_ or aabb - green eyes. The frog geneticist mated two purple utteres with the following results: Part A 9/16 purple, utterers 3/16 purple, mutterers 3/16 green. utterers 1/16 green. mutterers What were the genotypes of the parents? a. AabbRr x AaBbRr b. AabbRr x AAbbRr c. AabbRr x AabbRr d. AAbbRr x AaBbRr e. AabbRr x Aabbrr f. AaBbrr x AabbRr

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  1. 12 March, 20:29
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    The cross with the correct genotypes of the parents is AabbRr x AabbRr - option C-.

    Explanation:

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    Dominant uttering (R) and recessive muttering (r) Eye color is inherited by epistatic interaction A_B_: blue eyes; A_bb: purple eyes; aaB_ or aabb: green eyes.

    Cross) AabbRr x AabbRr

    Gametes) RAb Rab rAb rab

    RAb Rab rAb rab

    Punnet Square) RAb Rab rAb rab

    RAb RRAAbb RRAabb RrAAbb RrAabb

    Rab RRAabb RRaabb RrAabb Rraabb

    rAb RrAAbb RrAabb rrAAbb rrAabb

    rab RrAabb Rraabb rrAabb rraabb

    Note) Each parent has two copies of each gamete, which means that these results should be muliplied by four. But in oder to make it understandable, I resumed it, and just put half of the gametes.

    Progeny phenotypes) 9/16 purple, utterers R-A-bb

    3/16 purple, mutterers rrA-bb

    3/16 green, utterers R-aabb

    1/16 green, mutterers rraabb

    Option a. AabbRr x AaBbRr: Incorrect, as one of the parents has a genotype for blue eyes, A-B-

    Option b. AabbRr x AAbbRr: Incorrect, as one of the parents is homozygote for A, so there would not be any green descendant.

    Option c. AabbRr x AabbRr: Correct

    Option d. AAbbRr x AaBbRr: Incorrect, as one of the parents has a genotype for blue eyes, A-B-

    Option e. AabbRr x Aabbrr: Incorrect, as one of the parents is muttering, rr

    Option f. AaBbrr x AabbRr: Incorrect, as one of the parents is muttering, rr and has a genotype for blue eyes, A-B-
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