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) When crossing a pure-breeding strain of tabby cats with a pure-breeding strain

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Question

) When crossing a pure-breeding strain of tabby cats with a pure-breeding strain of black cats, all the offspring have a tabby coat. The tabby pattern is a grey-yellow background with black stripes, similar to those seen on tigers. Crossing the tabby offspring to each other gives a 3:1 ratio of tabby (T) to black (t) coat. Short hair (S) is dominant to long hair (s). The two characteristics of hair coloring and hair length are inherited independently of each other. One particular pair of dihybrid short-haired tabby cats produced twenty- two litters over a period of ten years (spay or neuter your cat!). Among these were 13 long-haired black kittens, 96 short-haired tabbies, 28 long-haired tabbies and 32 short- haired black kittens. 2) Perform another Chi square test on the same data trom problem # 1, testing instead the null hypothesis that the phenotypic ratio of the offspring is 3 short tabby: 1 short black :3 long tabby : 1 long black JTSS 3:

Explanation / Answer

1. The answer is

Null hypothesis: The obseved values are not deviating from the expected values.

Test-staic: Chisquare test

Category

short tabbies

long tabbies

short tabbies

long black

Total

Observed values (O)

96

28

32

13

169

Exptected Ratio (ER)

9

3

3

1

16

Exprected Values (E)

95.0625

31.6875

31.6875

10.5625

Deviation (O-E)

0.9375

-3.6875

0.3125

2.4375

D^2

0.878906

13.59766

0.097656

5.941406

D^2/E

0.009246

0.429117

0.003082

0.5625

1.003945

X^2

1.003945

Degrees of freedom

4

-

1

3

Inference: The calculated chisquare value i.e. 1.00 is less than the table value i.e. 7.82 at 3 DF and 0.05 probability, hence the null hypothesis is accepted.

2.

Null hypothesis: The obseved values are not deviating from the expected values.

Test-staic: Chisquare test

Category

short tabbies

long tabbies

short tabbies

long black

Total

Observed values (O)

96

28

32

13

169

Exptected Ratio (ER)

3

3

1

1

8

Exprected Values (E)

63.375

63.375

21.125

21.125

Deviation (O-E)

32.625

-35.375

10.875

-8.125

D^2

1064.391

1251.391

118.2656

66.01563

D^2/E

16.79512

19.74581

5.598373

3.125

45.2643

X^2

45.2643

Degrees of freedom

4

-

1

3

Inference: The calculated chisquare value i.e. 45.26 is greater than the table value i.e. 7.82 at 3 DF and 0.05 probability, hence the null hypothesis is rejected.

Category

short tabbies

long tabbies

short tabbies

long black

Total

Observed values (O)

96

28

32

13

169

Exptected Ratio (ER)

9

3

3

1

16

Exprected Values (E)

95.0625

31.6875

31.6875

10.5625

Deviation (O-E)

0.9375

-3.6875

0.3125

2.4375

D^2

0.878906

13.59766

0.097656

5.941406

D^2/E

0.009246

0.429117

0.003082

0.5625

1.003945

X^2

1.003945

Degrees of freedom

4

-

1

3