Practical Demonstration of Meclosts Create one pair of homologous chromosomes by

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Practical Demonstration of Meclosts Create one pair of homologous chromosomes by choosing two different colored wires to represent the paternal homolog and the maternal homolog. The homologous chromosomes should be the same size so the wires should be the same length. Green wire: paternal chromosome Pink wire: maternal chromosome Assign 5 genes (five beads) on each chromosome. Identify the phenotype. Gene locus Observable Traits Gene 1 Alleles Bead brown (dominant) dark blue blue (recessive)light blue eye color Gene 2 hair color black (dominant) orange blonde (recessive)yellow Gene 3 ear lobes detached (dominant) red attached (recessive) pink Gene 4 dimples dimples (dominant) purple no dimples (recessive) lavender Gene 5 freckles freckles (dominant) no freckles (recessive) dark green light green

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Only dominant characters will appear in phenotype.

Therefore resulting phenotype will be:-

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