Science | Graded Assignment | Lab Report | Gene Mapping

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Graded Assignment
Lab Report: Gene Mapping

Answer the questions below. When you are finished, submit this assignment to your teacher by the due date for
full credit.
For all questions, assume that you have genes for beak color, tail-feather length, and feather color all linked
(located) on the same chromosome, but you don't know the order of the genes on the chromosome or the
distance between them. The alleles for these genes are
beak color: Y for yellow beak (YY and Yy) and y for black beak (yy)
tail-feather length: L for long tail (LL and Ll) and l for short tail (ll)
feather color: B for blue feathers (BB and Bb) and b for white feathers (bb)

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Part 1: Crossing Beak Color and Tail-Feather Length

Cross a YyLl (heterozygous parent with dominant traits) with yyll (homozygous parent with recessive traits). Look
at the number of genotypes of the F1 generation:
YyLl: 400
Yyll: 100
yyLl: 100
yyll: 400
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1. Which offspring are the recombinant offspring in this cross?

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2. How far apart are Y and L? Give your answer in map units. (Hint: Add the numbers of the two recombinant
types, divide by the total number of offspring, and multiply by 100.)
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Part 2: Crossing Beak Color and Feather Color

Cross beak color and feather color.
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1. Cross one parent that is heterozygous for both beak color and feather color with a parent that is homozygous
for both recessive traits. What are the genotypes of the parents? (Hint: Recall that the P generation includes
a heterozygous parent with dominant traits and a homozygous parent with recessive traits.)
Assume the following F1 generation:
YyBb: 420
Yybb: 80

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yyBb: 80
yybb: 420
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. Which offspring are the recombinant offspring in this cross?

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. How far apart are Y and B?

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Part 3: Crossing Tail-Feather Length and Feather Color

Cross a P generation, LlBb with llbb. Assume the following F1 generation:
LlBb: 480
Llbb: 20
llBb: 20
llbb: 480

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1. Which offspring are not the recombinant offspring in this cross?

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. How far apart are L and B?

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Part 4: Mapping Beak Color, Tail-Feather Length, and Feather Color

Now you are ready to figure out the order of the genes for beak color, tail-feather length, and feather color on the
chromosome and build a genetic map.

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1. List the distances between each pair of genes:

beak color and tail-feather length:
beak color and feather color:
tail-feather length and feather color:
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2. Which two alleles are the farthest apart?

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. Which two alleles are the closest together?

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. True or False: The diagram shows the correct genetic map for these three alleles on one chromosome.

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