1. A pea plant that is (RrYy) is allowed to self-fertilize.

Round seed (R) is dominant to wrinkled (r), and yellow

seed (Y) is dominant to green (y). What is the probability of producing the following group of five seeds: two
round, yellow; one round, green; one wrinkled, yellow; and one wrinkled, green?

2 A cross was made between a plant that has blue flowers and purple seeds and a plant with white flowers and
green seeds. The F1 generation was then allowed to self-fertilize. The following data were obtained:

F1 generation: All offspring have blue flowers with purple seeds.

F2 generation: 208 blue flowers, purple seeds; 13 blue flowers, green seeds; 19 white flowers, purple
seeds; and 60 white flowers, green seeds.
Total = 300 offspring.

Start with the hypothesis that blue flowers and purple seeds are dominant traits and that the two genes assort
independently. Calculate a chi square value. What does this value mean with regard to your hypothesis? If you
decide to reject your hypothesis, which aspect of the hypothesis do you think is incorrect (i.e., blue flowers and
purple seeds are dominant traits, or the idea that the two genes assort independently)?

3 In a series of two-point mapping crosses involving five genes located on chromosome II in Drosophila, the
following recombinant (single-crossover) frequencies were observed:

r–adp 29 %
pr–vg 13 %
pr–c 21 %
pr–b 6%
adp–b 35 %
adp–c 8%
adp–vg 16 %
vg–b 19 %
vg–c 8%
c–b 27 %

(a) Given that the adp gene is near the end of chromosome II (locus 83), construct a map of these genes.
(b) In another set of experiments, a sixth gene, d, was tested against b and pr:
d–b 17%
d–pr 23%

Predict the results of two-point mapping between d and c, d and vg, and d and adp!

4 Three recessive traits in garden pea plants are as follows: yellow pods are recessive to green pods, bluish
green seedlings are recessive to green seedlings, creeper (a plant that cannot stand up) is recessive to normal.
A true-breeding normal plant with green pods and green seedlings was crossed to a creeper with yellow pods
and bluish green seedlings. The F1 plants were then crossed to creepers with yellow pods and bluish green
seedlings. The following results were obtained:

2059 green pods, green seedlings, normal

151 green pods, green seedlings, creeper
281 green pods, bluish green seedlings, normal
15 green pods, bluish green seedlings, creeper
2041 yellow pods, bluish green seedlings, creeper
157 yellow pods, bluish green seedlings, normal
282 yellow pods, green seedlings, creeper
11 yellow pods, green seedlings, normal

Construct a genetic map that indicates the map distances between these three genes!

5 In reptiles, sex determination was thought to be controlled by sex-chromosome systems or by temperature-

dependent sex determination without an inherited component to sex. In the Australian lizard, Pogona vitticeps,
it was recently revealed that sex is determined by both chromosome composition and by the temperature at
which eggs are incubated. Genotypically ZZ individuals will develop as females rather than as males as the
temperature increases. What effects might climate change have on temperature-dependent sex determination
in this species, and how might this impact the sex ratio for this species in subsequent generations?