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in roses, red is dominant over white. short stems are dominant over long stems. if you cross two heterozygous red, short-stemmed roses, what are the chances of producing the desirable trait of long-stemmed red roses?

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Let

• R = red

• r = white

• S = short stem

• s = long stem

Then two heterozygous (RrSs) parents can each contribute one of the following allele pairs:

RS, Rs, rS, rs

so that the genotypes of their offspring have the following distribution:

[tex]\begin{array}{ccccc} & RS & Rs & rS & rs \\ RS & \boxed{RRSS} & \boxed{RRSs} & \boxed{RrSS} & \boxed{RrSs} \\ Rs & \boxed{RRSs} & RRss & \boxed{RrSs} & Rrss \\ rS & \boxed{RrSS} & \boxed{RrSs} & \boxed{rrSS} & \boxed{rrSs} \\ rs & \boxed{RrSs} & Rrss & \boxed{rrSs} & rrss \end{array}[/tex]

The probability of producing offspring with either the SS or Ss genotype is then 12/16 = 3/4.

In other words, there are 4² = 16 possible genotypes among the offspring, and each parent has a 1/2 probability of contributing the S allele. There are 2 cases to consider:

• both parents contribute the S allele with probability (1/2)² = 1/4

• one parent contributes the S allele while the other contributes the s allele, and this can happen in 2 ways with probability 2 × (1/2)² = 1/2

These events are mutually exclusive, so the total probability is 1/4 + 1/2 = 3/4.

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