Mavila9 Week 2

Purpose

This experiment served to clarify the relationship between dominant and recessive genes, while also furthering my understanding of the changes caused by mutation at a biochemical level using a computer model.

Methods/Results

1. The program title Aipotu version 1.3.3 was downloaded.

1. In order to decipher the color of the alleles present in the default Greenhouse the following crosses were performed:

Organisms Crossed	Resulting Colors	Alleles Involved
Green-1 x Green-1	green	Cg
Green-1 x Green-2	green	Cg, Cx
Green-1 x Red	green & black	Cg, Cr
Green-1 x White	green	Cg, Cw
Green-2 x Green-2	green, blue, & yellow	Cb, Cy
Green-2 x Red	blue, yellow, orange, & purple	Cb, Cy, Cr
Green-2 x White	blue & yellow	Cb & Cy
Red x White	red & white	Cr, Cw

1. The

How many different alleles are there? Which colors do they produce?

Alleles	Color
CwCw	white
CyCy	yellow
CgCg	green
CbCb	blue
CrCr	red

Which are dominant and which are recessive?

Dominant- Blue, Red, Green

Recessive- Yellow, White

How do the colors combine to produce an overall color?

Genotype	Phyenotype
CgCr	black
CbCr	purple
CyCr	orange
CwCw	white
CyCy	yellow
CgCg	green
CbCb	blue
CrCr	red

Using the symbols you have developed, give the genotypes of the four starting organisms.

Organism	Genotype
Green-1	CgCg
Green-2	CgCr
Red	CrCw
White	CwCw

Conclusion

Using this knowledge, construct a purple flower.

Cross Green-2 and Red

Can you construct a pure-breeding purple flower with the starting set of organisms?

No because purple occurs due to red and blue co-dominance.

References

https://html.com/tables/ accessed September 11, 2019.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/sup accessed September 11,2019.