A dihybrid plant with incomplete linkage on test cross may produce how...
There would be four types of plants produced by performing a test cross between a dihybrid plant showing incomplete linkage.
Suppose, a heterozygous tall plant with round seeds (TtRr) is test crossed with homozygous short parent with green seeds (ttrr). The cross is as follows:
Gametes: TR, Tr, tR, tr and tr
View all questions of this test
A dihybrid plant with incomplete linkage on test cross may produce how...
Incomplete linkage refers to the situation where two genes are located on the same chromosome, but they are not tightly linked, and some recombination occurs between them during meiosis.
Possible gametes produced by a dihybrid plant with incomplete linkage on test cross are:
- AB
- Ab
- aB
- ab
Each of these gametes has a 50% chance of being produced.
When these gametes combine with gametes from the tester parent which is homozygous recessive (aa bb), the resulting offspring will have one of the following genotypes:
- AaBb (phenotypically dominant for both traits)
- Aabb (phenotypically dominant for the first trait, recessive for the second)
- aaBb (recessive for the first trait, phenotypically dominant for the second)
- aabb (recessive for both traits)
Therefore, there are four possible genotypic combinations in the offspring. However, each of these combinations can occur in two different ways, depending on which gamete came from the dihybrid plant.
For example, AaBb can be produced by the combination AB x ab or by the combination Ab x aB.
Therefore, there are eight different phenotypic combinations that can be produced in the offspring:
- AaBb (AB x ab, Ab x aB)
- Aabb (AB x ab, aB x Ab)
- aaBb (ab x AB, aB x Ab)
- aabb (ab x ab, Ab x aB)
Hence, the correct answer is option B (4).