2) Multiple types of epistasis can affect the same phenotype. In the corn lab, you were introduced to the aleurone, a protective shell around the kernel that can be red, purple or colorless. If the aleurone is colorless, then the kernel is the color of the endosperm, which can be either yellow or white. There are three genes that determine whether the aleurone is colored: C , R and I , each of which has dominant alleles ( C , R , I ) and recessive alleles ( c , r , i ) . If any of these genes have a colorless genotype, the aleurone is colorless, but if all three genes have a colored genotype, the aleurone is colored. The colored allele is dominant for the C and R genes, which means that either cc or rr will produce a colorless aleurone, regardless of the genotype for the other loci. However, the colorless allele for the I gene is dominant, meaning that either II or Ii genotypes have colorless aleurones, regardless of the C and R genotypes. This means that only corn kernals that are C R ii will have colored aleurones. If the aleurone is colored, then that color is the color of the kernel, as the endosperm cannot be seen. The aleurone's color is determined by the P locus, where the purple P allele is dominant to the red p allele. If the aleurone is colorless, then the endosperm's color can be seen, which determines the color of the kernel. The endosperm's color is determined by the Y locus, where the yellow Y allele is dominant to the white y allele. Suppose you crossed two corn plants: the seed plant was heterozygous for all five loci while the pollen plant was homozygous for all five: Cc Rr Ii Pp Yy. x cc RR ii pp yy This cross can produce kernels that are purple or red (if the aleurone is colored), as well as kernels that are yellow or white (if the aleurone is colorless). 2) What are the expected proportions of kernel colors that would be produced by this cross? Show your work. (Hint: you might do two branch diagrams: one to calculate colored versus colorless, and then use that result as the first node of a second branch diagram to salculate puyple/red yersus yellow/white.) (10 pts) Scanned with CamScanner .