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A farmer wants to breed a variety of taller corn.

a) How can the farmer use variation in the height of the

current corn plants to produce taller corn plants?

b) Will the farmer’s work be most effective if height in

corn plants is determined by polygenic inheritance,

multiple alleles, or co-dominant alleles? Explain.

c) The farmer fi nds that many of the tallest corn plants

are also very susceptible to a particular disease. How

could the farmer design an experiment to fi nd out

if the genes for height are linked to the genes for

resistance to the disease?

d) If these genes are linked, what steps could the farmer

take to create a breed of corn that is taller and more

disease-resistant than the current corn crop?

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The farmer can use variation in the height of the corn plants to cross them and produce taller corn plants. The farmer's work will be most effective if height is determined by codominance.

Codominance

Codominance refers to the fact that different alleles of a given gene locus can affect a phenotype.

The farmer's work will be most effective if height is determined by codominance because he/she will need to select hybrid plants in a generation to breed them.

The farmer can observe the proportion of taller offspring that are affected by the disease in order to analyze if heigh and disease resistance genes are linked.

If these genes are linked, then it is required to cross plants and then select recombinant offspring with desired features (in this case, taller and disease resistance plants).

Learn more about codominance here:

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