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generation, the phenotypical proportion
is three red (75%) to one yellow (25%).



  1. Considering hybridization in
    a trait like the color of the
    flowers of a given plant
    species (red/yellow)
    conditioned by a pair of
    different alleles in relation to
    complete dominance (red
    dominant/ yellow recessive),
    why in the F1 generation is
    one of the colors missing?


In this monohybridism one of the colorsdoes not appear in the F1 generation
because pure, i.e., their parental generators arehomozygous, and in F1 all
descendants are heterozygous (each
parental individual forms oof gamete). Since only heterozygousnly one type
genotypes appear and red is dominant
over yellow thgeneration will present only red flowers.e individuals of the F1



  1. Considering hybridization in
    a given trait like the color of
    the hair of a mammalian
    species (white/black)
    conditioned by a pair of
    different alleles under
    complete dominance (black
    dominant, B/ white recessive,
    w), how can the phenotypical
    proportion obtained in the F2
    generation be explained?
    What is this proportion?


In the monohybridism conditioned by

two different alleles thpresents only heterozygous individualse F1 generation (^)
(Bw). In F2 there is one individual BB,
two individuals Bw and one individualww. In relation to the phenotype there (^)
are in F2 two black individuals and one
white individual, since dominant color. So the proportion isblack is the (^)
3:1, three black-haired to one white-
haired.



  1. What is meant by saying
    that in relation to a given trait
    conditioned by a gene with
    two different alleles the
    gametes are always “pure”?
    To say that gametes are pure means
    that ththe referred trait.ey always carry only one allele Gametes are alwaysof
    “pure” because in them the
    chromosomes arcontain only one chrome not homologous, thosome of eachey
    type.

  2. What is the Mendel’s first
    law?
    The Mendel’s first law postulates that a


characteristicalways determined by two (trait) of an individual isfactors, one (^)
inherited from the father and the other
from thof the individual re mother and the direct offspringeceives from it only
one of these factors (aleatory). In other
words, eacfactors that seh trait is determined by twogregate during gamete
formation.
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