Zusammenfassung der Ressource
SUMMARY OF GENETIC
CROSSES
- Codominance
- What does it mean?
- Both alleles of the heterozygote are expressed
in the phenotype
- Annotations to use
- C*C* *-Small letters which are different. Use big letters (same) and little letters (different)
- Examples
- Roan coat colour in cattle
- Sickle Cell anemia
- Linkage
- What does it mean?
- Looking at 2 phenotypes, controlled by 2 genes but both genes are on the same chromosome
- Examples
- could be any features
- Annotations to use
- Make sure alleles for the different genes stay next to eachother when you form gametes
- RyrY into gametes: Ry and rY
- bGBG or Adad
- Remember!
- crossing over during prophase 1 of meiosis could unlink the alleles of the genes. The further apart ehy are on
the chromatid, the more likely it is that crossing over could happen.
- Sex Linkage
- What does it mean?
- Genes that are found on sex chromosomes
- Annotations to use
- X*X* X*Y-
- Examples
- Haemophilia. Toroiseshell colour in cats. Colour blindness.
- Remember!
- Males can never be heterozygous as they only have one allele on he X chromosome and no allele on the Y chromosome
- Dihybrid Inheritance
- Remember!
- 9:3:3:1
- What does it mean?
- Looking at 2 features controlled by 2 genes. The genes are on different chromosomes and will not stay together during random independent assortment in meiosis.
- Annotations to use
- RrYy BbGG Aadd
- When gametes are formed all combinations are possible eg Ry Ry rY ry BG bG
- Examples
- could be any features
- Recessive Epistasis
- What does it mean?
- The homozygous recessive allele combination (epistatic alleles) will prevent the expression of a different allele at a separate location (the hypostatic alleles)
- Annotations to use
- Hypostatic alleles:
Purple B Pink b
Epistatic Alleles: A and a
- aa means no colour will be expressed
- Puple: AaBb AABb
AABB AaBB Pink:
AAbb Aabb White:
aaBB aaBb aabb
- Treat as dihybrid cross when doing cross
- Examples
- usually colour
- Remember!
- If colour is not expressed they will be white
- How this might work
- Epistatic gene codes for a colourless pigment. Pigment is only made if A is present. aa= no pigment therefore no colour. B codes
for an enzyme that converts the colourless pigment into a purple colour. b codes for an enzyme that converts the colourless
pigment into a pink colour.
- Dominant Epistasis
- What does it mean?
- The presence of a dominant epistatic allele will mask the presence of a hypostatic allele
- Annotations to use
- Hypostatic allele in squash: Yellow- E Green- e
- Epistatic allele D or d
- E and e can only be expressed if D is NOT present.
- White squash: DDEE DDEe DDee DdEE DdEe Ddee
- Yellow Squash: ddEe ddEE
- Green Squash: ddee
- Treat as dihybrid cross when doing a cross
- Examples
- usually colours
- Remember!
- If colour is not expressed they will be white
- How this might work
- Epistatic dominant allele codes for a repressor protein. This binds to the
operator of the hypostatic allele and prevents transcription of gene.
Therefore no colour. If there are 2 recessive epistatic alleles the repressor
is not made. Therefore transcription can take place therefore colour is
expressed.
- Complementary Epistasis
- What does it mean?
- Not hypostatic vs epistatic
- 2 alleles working together
- sweetpea colour. Purple and white. 2 gene loci are involved Cc and Rr. Both C and R need to be present for the purple colour to be expressed.
- Annotations to use
- Purple: CcRr CCRR CCRr CcRR White: ccRr ccRR ccrr Ccrr CCrr
- Treat as dihybrid cross when doing a cross
- Exmaples
- usually colours
- Remember!
- If colour is not expressed they will be white
- How this might work
- Precursor--> intermediate --> pigment
- Allele C codes for a colourless intermediate pigment. Allele R codes for an enzyme that converts the
colourlesSintermediate pigment to purple. If rr or cc allele combination is present the purple cant be
expressed.