GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
EVOLUTION
Question
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RR, rr
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rr, rr
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Rr, Rr
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rr, Rr
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Detailed explanation-1: -RR x rr. You’ll note that 100% of all offspring are Rr, which is the genotype. Since the genotype for all offspring are the same, and the Rr genotype encodes a pink color, then 100% of the phenotypes will be pink (NOT red-remember that this is incomplete dominance).
Detailed explanation-2: -Individuals carrying two identical alleles (RR or rr) are known as homozygous. While individual organisms bearing different alleles (Rr) are known as heterozygous.
Detailed explanation-3: -Number of genotypes for a given number of alleles Given n alleles at a locus, the number genotypes possible is the sum of the integers between 1 and n: With 2 alleles, the number of genotypes is 1 + 2 = 3. 3 alleles there are 1 + 2 + 3 = 6 genotypes. 4 alleles there are 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 genotypes.
Detailed explanation-4: -If someone possesses both the dominant and recessive alleles for tongue rolling, we would write his or her genotype as “Rr”. The capital R shows that there is one dominant allele for tongue rolling, and the lower case r represents the other, recessive allele.