if in a certain organism, females are diploid and males are haploid, why would this not follow mendelian genetics?
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i guess the males won't be able to have 2 homologous chromosomes, so no 2 alleles for a trait like we see in mendelian. males couldn't have Aa for example.
i mean what would your punnet square look like?
i mean what would your punnet square look like?
In the haplo-diplo sexual determination scheme of the hymenoptera things are a little different than in humans. The daughters get one set of genes from their mothers and their fathers complete set of genes. The sons get one set of genes from their mothers and that is it. Sex isn't random, the mother 'decides' before the egg is laid if it will be a boy or a girl. If It is a girl you draw the Punnet 'square' with one column (for what ever the father is giving her) and two rows (for which ever one of the two alleles the mother is giving her, for a male offsprint the column is always empty, because there is no father.
It's not just that simple however, because the queen mates with multiple males so you won't know which one the father is, however you will get all your loci from father a or father b or father c they will not mix and match.
It's not just that simple however, because the queen mates with multiple males so you won't know which one the father is, however you will get all your loci from father a or father b or father c they will not mix and match.
