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Exploring Mendelian Genetics
Law of Independent Assortment
• Does the segregation of one pair of alleles affect the segregation of another pair of alleles?– Mendel performed an experiment to follow two
different genes from generation to generation in a Two-Factor Cross = Dihybrid Cross
Dihybrid Cross: F1 Generation
• Mendel crossed true-breeding plants that produced only round yellow peas (RRYY) with plants that produced wrinkled green peas (rryy). All F1 offspring from this cross had round yellow peas (RrYy)
• This cross produced hybrid plants for the next cross…
Dihybrid CrossCross a Round, Yellow peas plant (RRYY) with
plants that produce Wrinkled, Green peas (rryy).
RRYY x rryy
R = round seed
r = wrinkled seed
Y = yellow seed
y = green seed
RY RY RY RY
ry
ry
ry
ry
RrYy RrYy RrYy RrYy
RrYy RrYy RrYy RrYy
RrYy RrYy RrYy RrYy
RrYy RrYy RrYy RrYy
All offspring produced have Round, Yellow peas.
Round, Yellow
Round, Yellow
Round, Yellow
Round, Yellow
Dihybrid Cross: F2 Generation
– Mendel crossed two F1 plants (RrYy) heterozygous for both seed shape and color
– Using a Punnett square, we can see that alleles for seed shape segregate independently of those for seed color = Law of Independent Assortment – the inheritance of one character has no effect on the inheritance of another.
Dihybrid CrossCross two plants that are heterozygous for round,
yellow seeds (RrYy).
RrYy x RrYy
R = round seed
r = wrinkled seed
Y = yellow seed
y = green seed
RY Ry rY ry
RY
Ry
rY
ry
RRYY RRYy RrYY RrYy
RRYy RRyy RrYy Rryy
RrYY RrYy rrYY rrYy
RrYy Rryy rrYy rryy
Phenotype Ratio -Round, Yellow
Round, Yellow
Round, Yellow
Round, Yellow
Round, Green
Round, Yellow
Round, Yellow
Round, Yellow
Round, Yellow
Round, Yellow
Round, Green
Round, Green
Wrinkled,Yellow
Wrinkled,Yellow
Wrinkled,Yellow
Wrinkled, Green
9 Round, Yellow
3 Round, Green
3 Wrinkled, Yellow
1 Wrinkled, Green
9 : 3 : 3 : 1 Ratio
Dihybrid Cross
Genotype Ratio –
1 RRYY : 2 RRYy :
2 RrYY : ….Ahhh!
Punnett square shows a 9:3:3:1 phenotypic ratio –
9 yellow round : 3 yellow wrinkled : 3 green round: 1 green wrinkled
Blind dog
Phenotypes
(a) Possible phenotypes of Labrador retrievers
B_N_
Blind dog
Genotypes
(b) A Labrador dihybrid cross
Black coat,normal vision
B_nn
Black coat,blind (PRA)
bbnn
Chocolate coat,blind (PRA)
bbN_
Chocolate coat,normal vision
Mating of double heterozygotes
(black coat, normal vision)BbNn BbNn
Phenotypicratio ofoffspring
9 black coat, normal vision
3 black coat, blind (PRA)
3 chocolate coat, normal vision
1 chocolate coat, blind (PRA)
Blind Blind
Summary of Mendel’s Principles
– Inheritance of biological information is determined by genes and there are different versions (alleles)
– Each adult organism has two copies of each gene – one from each parent (could then be heterozygous or homozygous)
– Some forms of a gene may be dominant or recessive– Alleles for different genes usually segregate
independently of one another (law of segregation/law of independent assortment)