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? For this, it may help to make a genotype-phenotype table and then try to abstract rules from that. You should be sure that you have tried all the possible combinations of the alleles you found in part (a).
| 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.
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Using this knowledge, construct a purple flower.
Can you construct a pure-breeding purple flower with the starting set of organisms?
Post your findings to your section’s Lab Data Blog.
