Odigia C3BC General Biology I BIO111 course content LAB

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Odigia C3BC General Biology I BIO111 course content LAB ACTIVITY 1 INHERITANCE OF THE CORN TEXTURE GENE The corn used for this experiment F2 was obtained when smooth textured corn of the F1 generation were crossed with each other The F1 corn was obtained by crossing true breeding smooth textured corn with true breeding rough textured corn In this exercise you will be given a corn cob and you will count the number of corn kernels that have the smooth phenotype and the number that possess the rough phenotype The corn kernels represent the individuals of the F2 generation By doing this you will be able to determine how the corn texture trait is inherited 01 22 td BIO111 General Biology I 1 Write a hypothesis about how you think this trait is inherited in your statement include whether this trait is inherited according to Mendel s laws which phenotype is dominant and which one is recessive 2 Write a statement if then predicting your results based on your hypothesis hint in your statement predict what the phenotypic ratio will be based on your hypothesis 3 In table 2 below record the number of corn kernels that are smooth and rough Table 2 Number of kernels Lab 11 6 Texture smooth rough Number of Kernels 215 35