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AABB and aabb individuals were crossed to each other, and the F1 generation was backcrossed to the aabb parent. 993 AaBb, 995 aabb, 5 Aabb, and 7 aaBb offspring resulted.
a. How far apart are the a and b loci?
b. What progeny and in what frequencies would you expect to result from testcrossing the F1 generation from a AAbb X aaBB crosss to aabb?
c. In a typical meiosis, how many crossovers occur between genes A and B?
d. Assume that the A and B loci are on the same chromosome, but the offspring from the testcross described above were 494 AaBb, 506 aabb, 505Aabb, and 495 aaBb. How would your answer to part (c) change.
When F1 generation AaBb was test crossed with aabb
following genotypes were formed in respective frequencies
1st AaBb 993 out of 2000 offsprings
2nd aabb 995 out of 2000 offsprings
3rd Aabb 5 out of 2000 offsprings
4th aaBb 7 out of 2000 offsprings
ans to part a.)
Now 1st and 2nd genotypes are parental combination and 3rd and 4th are new combination which are result of crossing over
so the frequency of organisms with new combination are 12 out of 2000
so the recombination or crossing over frequency is 0.6 %
so the distance between gene a and b is 0.6 centimorgan
ans to part b .)
result of cross in segment b is
Still the recombinants ( offsprings formed after crossing over ) will be 0.6 %
but recombinants in this part would be AaBb and aabb
results of this cross
1st AaBb 0.3% of total offsprings
2nd aabb 0.3 % of total offsprings
3rd Aabb 49.7% of total offsprings
4th aaBb 49.7% of total offsprings
ans to part c.)
as distance between loci a and b or A and B is 0.6 centimorgan
frequency of crossing over in meiosis will be 0.6 %
ans to part d .)
in this case offsprings and their relative frquencies are given as
1st AaBb 494 out of 2000 offsprings
2nd aabb 506 out of 2000 offsprings
3rd Aabb 505 out of 2000 offsprings
4th aaBb 495 out of 2000 offsprings
now in this case no of recombinants are equal to offsprings with parental combinatons
so the frequency of recombinants is 50 %
so the distance between 2 loci is around 50 centimorgan ( or more ) and frequency of crossing over is 50 %.