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Chapter 4 Modification of Mendelian Ratios 1. In Shorthorn cattle, coat color may be red, white, or roan. Roan is an intermediate phenotype expressed as a mixture of red and white hairs. The following data are obtained from various crosses: red × red = all red white × white = all white red × white = all roan roan × roan = 1/4 red:1/2 roan:1/4 white How is coat color inherited? What are the genotypes of parents and offspring for each cross? 2. Contrast incomplete dominance and codominance. 3. With regard to the ABO blood types in humans, determine the genotypes of the male parent and female parent: Male parent: blood type B whose mother was type O Female parent: blood type A whose father was type B Predict the blood types of the offspring that this couple may have and the expected ratio of each. 4. In foxes, two alleles of a single gene, P and p, may result in lethality (PP) platinum coat (Pp), or silver coat (pp). What ratio is obtained when platinum foxes are interbred? Is the P allele behaving dominantly or recessively in causing (a) lethality; (b) platinum coat color? 5. Three gene pairs located on separate autosomes determine flower color and shape as well as plant height. The first pair exhibits incomplete dominance, where color can be red, pink (the heterozygote), or white. The second pair leads to the dominant personate or recessive peloric flower shape, while the third gene pair produces either the dominant tall trait or the recessive dwarf trait. Homozygous plants that are red, personate, and tall are crossed with those that are white, peloric, and dwarf. Determine the F1 genotype(s) and phenotype(s). If the F1 plants are interbred, what proportion of the offspring will exhibit the same phenotype as the F1 plants? 6. As in the plants of Problem 5, color may be red, white, or pink; and flower shape may be personate or peloric. Determine the P1 and F1 genotypes for the following crosses: (a)red,peloric譿hite,personate(F1: all pink,personate (b)red,