3.11.4: Anaphase I and recombinants
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Imagine that parent is fully heterozygous, like in Mendel’s first generation. It has red flowers (Rr) and long stems (Ll), the whole genotype is then “RrLl”.
There are two possibilities in the anaphase I:
- Either “R-chromosome” and “L-chromosome” come together to one pole (consequently, “l-chromosome” and “r-chromosome” to other pole)
- Or “R-chromosome” + “l-chromosome” come one way, and “r-chromosome” + “L-chromosome” another way
Each variant has 1/2 (50%) probability, like in throwing a coin.
Four gamete types are possible:
- RL
- rl
- Rl
- rL
Four gametes give 16 combinations (phenotypes are short-stemmed, long-stemmed, white-flowered and red-flowered):
| RL | rl | Rl | rL | |
| RL | RRLL | RrLl | RRLl | RrLL |
| rl | RrLl | rrll | Rrll | rrLl |
| Rl | RRLl | Rrll | RRll | RrLl |
| rL | RrLL | rrLl | RrLl | rrLL |
(Please count proportions to see that it is really 9:3:3:1.)
As R and L are dominant, only four phenotypes appear, and two of them are recombinants, phenotypes unlike parents.