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Gene linkage, find genotype/phenotype of parents given progeny?

A plant has 3 genes? that control colour.

P purple > p1 light purple > p white.

The number of leaves is controlled by 2 genes?

F five leafs > f four leafs

I cross a purple leaf with five leafs to white flower with four leafs.

F1 Progeny:

35 purple and five leafs

36 light purple and five leafs.

1) What is the genotype of the parents crossed?

I just had this on a test, hopefully I have all the information!

I guessed the parents :(

The dot means we don't know if genes are linked.

My punnet square for the hypothesized parent genotype:

P/p1 ⋅ F/F x p/p ⋅ f/f

.........P ⋅ F...........P ⋅ F...........p1 ⋅ F............p1 ⋅ F

p ⋅ f...P/p ⋅ F/f......P/p ⋅ F/f......p1/p ⋅ F/f......p1/p ⋅ F/f

Hope the above is understandable!

Progeny is 1/4 for all:

P/p ⋅ F/f

P/p ⋅ F/f

p1/p ⋅ F/f

p1/p ⋅ F/f

So half are Purple with five leafs

Other half are light purple with five leafs!

Parents must be: P/p1 ⋅ F/F and p/p ⋅ f/f?

Update:

Also: I'm learning about gene linkage, is there anyway to know if genes are linked? There was a part 2 crossing F1 with something, but I forgot what the question was specifically :(

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  • 3 years ago
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    Okay. I think you meant "alleles" instead of "genes" above.

    I will proceed as if that is the case.

    We know that your white flower plant is pp

    There're light purple progeny so your purple flower plant is Pp1

    So we have Pp1 x pp => Pp Pp p1p p1p looking good so far.

    Your four-leaf parent is ff

    ALL your progeny are five-leaf. Therefore your five-leaf parent is FF.

    FF x ff => Ff Ff Ff Ff

    Let's put them all together:

    Pp1FF x ppff (answer)

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