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#Question id: 15816


You and your lab partner have isolated 20 new mutant yeast strains that are defective in synthesis of threonine, an amino acid. These Thr- mutants do not grow on minimal medium, but they do grow on minimal medium supplemented with threonine. Ten of your Thr- mutants (numbered 1 through 10) were isolated in a strain of mating type a (MAT a). The other 10 Thrmutants (numbered 11 through 20) were isolated in a strain of mating type α (MAT α). You and your lab partner cross each of the MAT a strains to each of the MAT α strains, and you include crosses to the appropriate wild-type strains. Your experimental observations are shown in the table below, where (-) indicates diploids that did not grow on minimal medium and (+) indicates diploids that did grow on minimal medium.

Which mutations do you know to be in the same gene?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
  1. [1, 6, 7, 12, 13, 18] [2, 5, 11, 15, 20] [3, 10, 16] [4, 8, 17, 19]
  2. [1, 2, 5, 12, 13, 18] [3, 6, 11, 15, 20] [4, 8, 10, 16] [7, 17, 19]
  3. [1, 2, 5, 11, 15] [3, 17, 19] [4, 8, 10, 16, 20] [6, 7, 12, 13, 18]
  4. [2, 5, 11, 15, 20] [1, 6, 7, 10, 16] [3, 4, 8, 17, 18] [ 12, 13, 19]