5. You have a male flying monkey with scaly brown wings, as opposed to the norma

Question

5. You have a male flying monkey with scaly brown wings, as opposed to the normal feathery wings of it's siblings. The normal wing color for flying a flying monkey is brown, but you have found a female with red-feathered wings. You hypothesize that the genes for wing color and wing structure (scales vs feathers) are unlinked. As this population of flying monkeys lives in a far-away land, you don't have access to normal genetic technology that we do. How could you set up a genetic test to determine this without access to a sequencer?

Explanation / Answer

Ans. If i not having any technology with me then i can do restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) along with agarose gel electrophoresis.Mutation can very well be detected using RFLP

The DNA sample collection-The sample will be collected from normal monkey for feathery wing and from mutated monkey with scaly wings.similarly for normal brown wing and mutated wing sample will be collected.

restriction through enzymes.-known restriction enzymes will be taken and cut

Agarose gel electrophoresis -the restricted fragments will be electrophoresed using agarose gel well.

Since the mutated genes will show different pattern on well unlike normal DNA sample,we can come to know if there are any genetic variation within the cell.

Related Questions

Navigate

• Browse (All)
• Browse 5
• Subjects

---

---

Integrity-first tutoring: explanations and feedback only — we do not complete graded work. Learn more.