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Question 8

In summer squash, fruit colour is controlled by two genes, A A\,A and BBB, which assort independently on different autosomes. The dominant allele A A\,A results in white fruit, masking the expression of the B B\,B gene (dominant epistasis). In homozygous recessive aa aa\,aa individuals, the dominant allele B B\,B produces yellow fruit, while the homozygous recessive genotype aabb aabb\,aabb produces green fruit.

A geneticist crosses two double heterozygous (AaBbAaBbAaBb) plants and obtains a total of 480 offspring in the F2 F_2\,F2​ generation. Assuming the offspring phenotypes perfectly fit the expected ratio for dominant epistasis, how many of these offspring are expected to have yellow fruit?

A

909090

B

120120120

C

270270270

D

360360360

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5.1 Inheritance Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Biology
  3. /5.1 Inheritance

97 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Biology 5.1 Inheritance, covering 5.1.1 The genome, 5.1.2 Environment and phenotype, 5.1.3 Variants and mutations, 5.1.4 How genetic variants influence phenotype, 5.1.5 Asexual and sexual reproduction, 5.1.6 Haploid and diploid, 5.1.7 Meiotic cell division, 5.1.8 Single gene inheritance, 5.1.9 Predicting single gene crosses, 5.1.10 Sex determination, 5.1.11 Multiple gene inheritance, and 5.1.12 Development of our understanding of genetics. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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