Genetics: Analysis and Principles 4th Edition by Robert Brooker

Exercise 5

In one strain of cabbage, you conduct an RFLP analysis of head weight; you determine that seven QTLs affect this trait. In another strain of cabbage, you find that only four QTLs affect this trait. Note that both strains of cabbage are from the same species, although they may have been subjected to different degrees of inbreeding. Explain how one strain can have seven QTLs and another strain four QTLs for exactly the same trait. Is the second strain missing three genes