A short, yellow male nematode (C.elegans) is mated with a hermaphrodite that is fat and blind. All The F1 are short. The F2 has four classes 60 yellow, short; 180 short; 60 fat, blind ; 30 fat, blind,yellow. What is the genotype of the F1 hermaphrodite (female)?
Select one:
a. sh y + + /+ + f b
b. Sh/Sh[fb]; y/+
c. sh y f b
d. Sh/+; y/+ ; +/f; +/b
e. yellow
f. sh +/+ f; y +/+ b
g. Sh/Sh[f]; y/y[b]
C. elegans has two natural sexes, XO males and XX hermaphrodites. ...
now focus to the problem the given things are -
180 shorts : 60 yellow short : 60 fat blind : 30 fat blind yellow.
when we consider about the offsprin they may have XO male and XX hermaprodite .
here when we considere male only single X is present which carries single pair of characters like yellow [y] and short [sh]. when we consider female , it contains heterozygous XX combination means having two different pairs of characters on two X chromosome.
therefor the genotype of hermaprodite female is
sh +/+ f; y +/+ b
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