HYB: 201 -- Seedling Evaluation
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- Subject: HYB: 201 -- Seedling Evaluation
- From: S* M* <7*@compuserve.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:39:35 -0700 (MST)
Brian Yates wrote:
> Sharon can't remember all the crosses in your last assignment but it
> involved blue amoenas. =
No. It did NOT involve blue amoenas.
None of the selected seedlings were
amoenas and I listed no amoenas
among the hypothetical offspring. So
you can safely ignore the amoena
factor in doing the homework.
But if you think that the problem as
stated is too simplistic, you can go =
ahead and dream up some test =
crosses to detect hidden amoena
genes.
Of course it is possible that one or
more of the seedlings I described =
actually carry some doses of the =
recessive amoena genes without
expressing the trait. Nothing I put
in the description of the problem
would preclude their existence.
> A pattern that is resessive and also being an
> allele being that it isn't just resessive, dominate, or heterozygus wit=
h
> dominate appearance. =
I'm not sure what you mean
here. Modern amoenas are
genetically complex, not governed
by a single allelic series. Rather,
many of today's dominant amoenas =
also carry some of the recessive genes.
This is far more complex than I meant
to cover in "201" -- but if this is your area
of interest, I don't want to discourage
such initiative.
Sharon McAllister
73372.1745@compuserve.com
