Discussion:
Alleles Sequence Causing Blue Soybeans
Suppose you are working for a biotechnology company in the "New Plant Products" division. You wander into the greenhouse and come across a recently harvested bag of soybeans that are colored a neon blue. There are currently 5 soybean plants in the greenhouse, but the bag is not labeled as to which plant they were obtained from. Describe how you would go about identifying the source plant. Secondly, describe how you would go about determining the sequence of this particular allele that is responsible for the blue color. Assume a single gene controls soybean seed color, and that you already know the nucleotide sequence of the wild type allele.