Consider a diploid organism that has three pairs of autosomes. Assume that the o

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Consider a diploid organism that has three pairs of autosomes. Assume that the organism receives autosomes A, B, and C from the female parent and A’, B’, and C’ from the male parent. Assume no crossing-over occurs.

What proportion of the gametes would be expected to contain all of the chromosomes of maternal origin?

What proportion of the gametes would be expected to contain all of the chromosomes of paternal origin?

What proportion of the gametes would be expected to contain chromosomes of both maternal and paternal origin.

Explanation / Answer

total ofsprings will be 64

so 1 will be total maternal , 1 will be total paternal and rest 62 will have one gene or the other from both the parents

so 1/64 for maternal and paternal and 62/64 for rest

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