Answer:
These strands are clones, however, due to their low genetic variability, the population becomes susceptible to diseases taking place in plants. Pando comprises grove of about 47000 trunks, these all are genetically similar that develops from a solitary underground species, Quaking aspen tree. Pando is an extremely large clone.
However, for the past some years, scientists are worried about Pando's health. For the past thousands of years, Pando was living in fine tune with the native wildlife population, but for the past some years, a shift in balance is noticed. As in the absence of the development of novel stems, nothing will be able to substitute the natural withering of the older ones, if this goes on, the death of Pando will take place.
This information is not enough to tell which of the traits-blood group A or O is dominant.
It is known that blood groups A and B are codominant, which means both will express if found together in a heterozygote. However, blood group O is recessive. But from this information, you can conclude that blood group O is dominant. Why is that so?
Let's imagine that father's genotype is AA and mothers' genotype OO and cross them:
Parents: AA x OO
Offspring: AO AO AO AO
Since we have information that daughter has blood group O, we can conclude that O is dominant over A and mask it. This is not true! In this case, the daughter will have blood group A.
Mother's genotype surely is OO (because O allele is recessive, so to express a recessive trait both alleles must be recessive). But, the father cannot be AA, because it must give O allele to the daughter so she can have genotype OO and blood group O. So, the father's genotype is AO. Let's take a look at that crossing:
Parents: AO x OO
Offspring: AO AO OO OO
Thus, in this case, daughter can have genotype OO and blood group O.
Meiosis differs from mitosis in the number of chromosomes in each ending cell. In addition, one of the purposes of meiosis is to reduce the chromosome number in each cell by half and meiosis contains two rounds of division which is meiosis I and meiosis II and ends with four gametes that are not the same genetically.
