You\'ve become the world\'s expert on Athenos beetles, and you\'re especially in

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You've become the world's expert on Athenos beetles, and you're especially interested in the genes that control the patterning on the scutellum. So, you collected several mutant strains that have the same remarkable heart-shaped pattern. For pairwise combinations in complementation tests, the results are shown in this table, where represents complementation and 0 represents no complementation

How many genes are represented by these mutants? 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,

List the mutants that are in the largest complementation group (i.e. the complementation group that includes the most mutant strains).

Explanation / Answer

a. There are 3 genes represented by these mutants. Because all nine mutants are represented on three genes only as the mutant on same gene complement each other.

b. Mutant on gene 1 = delta and pi

gene 2 = alpha, zeta and chi

gene 3 = beta, rho, mu and tau

Therefore the mutants in largest complementation group are beta, rho, mu, and tau.

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