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    Complementary genes MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

    Edited By admin | Updated on Sep 18, 2023 18:34 AM | #NEET

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    • Complementary factor is considered one the most difficult concept.

    • 7 Questions around this concept.

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    Modified dihybrid ratio 9:7 observed by  Bateson and Punette was found in 
     

    In sweet pea plant, purple colour pigment present is:

    A sweet pea plant with heterozygous genotype AaBb is test-crossed. If the two genes interact in a complementary manner, what would be the phenotypic segregation w.r.t flower colour?
     

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    Complementary factor
    • In this type of gene interaction, dominant alleles from both the genes are required for the phenotype.
    • If the individual is missing a dominant allele for either one of the two genes, they will be albino.
    • This is because the dominant alleles of both the genes are required in the metabolic pathway of pigmentation.
    • If any one of the dominant alleles is absent, colour formation will not occur.
    • In sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus), both the genes C and P are required to synthesize anthocyanin pigment causing purple colour. 
    • But in the absence of any one cannot produce anthocyanin causing white flowers. 
    • So C and P are complementary to each other for anthocyanin formation.

      

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    Elementary Biology Vol 2

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