Question

Two organisms, AABBCCDDEE and aabbccddee, are mated to produce an F1 that is self-fertilized. If the capital letters represent dominant, independently assorting alleles. What proportion of the F2 genotypes will be recessive for all five loci?

Answer 1

Answer:

1/1024 is the proportion of the F2 genotypes will be recessive for all five loci

Explanation:

When crossing between both parents, all genotypes will give us 100% AaBcCcDdEe. When a self-fertilization is performed this means that it can have a cross for example of two flowers of the same plant with the genotype AaBcCcDdEe In this way, given the law of independent segregation which states that the alleles of two or more different genes are distributed in the gametes independently of each other. The proportion that at this junction the alleles are aa (1/4)  bb (1/4) cc (1/4) dd (1/4) and ee (1/4). The proportions (1/4)* (1/4)*(1/4)*(1/4)*(1/4) are multiplied, obtaining a value of 1/1024