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BIO421 Problem Set 1: Due Monday, 17 Oct. You must show your work for credit Name_____________________________ 1. You are doing a mutational analysis to identify genes involved in leaf formation in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The mutagen you are using creates 20 new mutated genes in each F1 individual. The F1 may be self-pollinated to obtain the F2. How many F2 individuals would you have to screen to create homozygous mutations in every gene in the genome on average one time, given that A. thaliana has a genome with about 27,000 genes? 2. You have a new mutation that causes a twitching movement in C. elegans, and you suspect it might be a mutation in the unc-22 gene on chromosome IV. Diagram the complementation test you would do to test this hypothesis, and describe the results that would indicate that the new mutation is in unc-22. 3. You have a new uncoordinated (unc) mutant in C. elegans. You want to determine which chromosome the mutation resides on, so you do a two factor cross with dpy-5, a gene in the center of chromosome I. You cross your new unc mutant strain to a strain with a mutation in dpy-5. Please diagram the cross and indicate the results that show your new mutation is not on chromosome I. 4. Later on you find that your new unc mutation is on Chromosome V, so you use a two-factor cross to determine the how far your new unc is from dpy-11. You cross your mutant with a dpy-11 mutant and isolate a large number of dumpy F2 worms and find the following: 141 F2 dpy produced all non unc F3 54 F2 dpy produced ¼ unc F3 5 F2 dpy were unc as well How far is the new unc gene from dpy-11? Draw a map of the chromosome showing the location(s) of the new unc gene. 5. In a two-factor cross between worms homozygous for spe-27 and worms homozygous for unc-22, please diagram all possible gamete chromosomes that the F1 can produce (ie. non-recombinant and recombinant), and give the frequency of each chromosome based upon the map position of the two genes. spe-27 2.45 unc-22 5.47 6. Two genes, A and B, map next to each other and a similar distance from a nearby marker gene, C: You decide to do a 3-factor cross to determine gene order. for B and C with a strain that is mutant for A: ABor BA? C You cross a strain that is a double mutant BC x A What phenotypes in the F2 progeny would indicate that they contain a recombinant chromosome? In the example above, you pick F2 that have only the B mutant phenotype. You find that they produce F3 with the following phenotypes: B, BA, and BC. What is the order of the genes on the chromosome? You must show your work – draw out the B mutants in the F2 from the two gene arrangements and decide what F3 phenotypes they will segregate.