Brassica Rapa Hypothesis

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The purpose of our experiment was to test whether or not the Wisconsin Fast Plants, or Brassica rapa, followed the Mendelian genetics and its law of inheritance. First, after we crossed the heterozygous F1 generation, we created an F2 generation which we used to analyze. After analyzing our results, we conducted a chi-square test for for both the F1 and F2 generations to test their “goodness of fit”. For the F1 generation we calculated an x2 value of 6.97, which was greater than the value on the chi-square table at a p-value of 0.05 and 1 degree of freedom (6.97 > 3.84). This meant that we had to reject our hypothesis that stated there would be no difference between the observed and expected values. This showed us that the F1 …show more content…

This meant that we had to reject our hypothesis for the dihybrid cross which stated that there would be no difference in the observed and expected values. This showed that the F2 generations did not follow Mendelian genetics because it did not express a 9:3:3:1 phenotypic ratio. In both our F1 and F2 generations, we had to reject our hypotheses because they did not follow the Mendelian genetic inheritance pattern show by our results above. Because both the F1 and F2 generations of Brassica rapa failed to follow the Mendelian genetics inheritance pattern, there could have been some biological errors that cause this to happen. An example of this is that maybe not every single plant got the exact same amount of water or same amount of sunlight, causing the plants to grow differently and therefore deviate from the Mendelian’s law of inheritance. To prevent this from happening in the future, what could have been done was measure out the amount of water each plant got rather than just watering each plant casually. Also, for the amount of sunlight, steps could have been taken to ensure that each plant would get the exact same amount of light and not get different amounts just because of where they were

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