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Sordaria Crossing Over

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Sordaria Crossing Over

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    1. Sordaria Crossing Over This activity involves observing the results of crossing over in a fungus, Sordaria. A cross between two haploid strains of Sordaria produces spores of different colors.

    2. Where the growing filaments of the two strains meet, fertilization occurs and zygotes form. Meiosis occurs within fruiting bodies to form haploid ascospores, spores contained in asci (special sacs). Then one mitotic division doubles the number of ascospores to eight.

    4. Four black ascospores in a row next to four tan ascospores in a row indicates that crossing over has NOT occurred.  Any other arrangement of ascospores indicates that crossing over has taken place.

    5. Study the following picture of Sordaria to determine if crossing over has occurred in the asci.  If the ascospores are arranged 4 dark/4 light, count the ascus as "No crossing over." If the arrangement of ascospores is in any other combination, count it as "Crossing over."

    6. Examples of Sordaria Octads By Fordyce G. Lux III Professor of Biology Lander University We thank you for your excellent work.

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