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Genetic Crosses Practice Worksheet

The document is a worksheet focused on genetic crosses, including monohybrid, incomplete dominance, codominance, and dihybrid crosses. It contains various problems for students to solve, involving traits in rabbits, cats, tomato plants, mice, peas, purple people eaters, snapdragons, gerbils, and watermelons. Each problem requires the identification of genotypes, phenotypes, and probabilities related to offspring traits.

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Genetic Crosses Practice Worksheet

The document is a worksheet focused on genetic crosses, including monohybrid, incomplete dominance, codominance, and dihybrid crosses. It contains various problems for students to solve, involving traits in rabbits, cats, tomato plants, mice, peas, purple people eaters, snapdragons, gerbils, and watermelons. Each problem requires the identification of genotypes, phenotypes, and probabilities related to offspring traits.

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Name ________________________________ Date ________ Period ______ Genetic crosses

Genetic Crosses Worksheet

Monohybrid Crosses:
1. A heterozygous rabbit is crossed with a homozygous dominant rabbit. What are
the results? (B = gray b = white).

2. In cats having hair is dominant (H) over not having hair (h). If a male cat that is
heterozygous for hair is crossed with a hairless cat what are the genotypes and
phenotypes that their offspring may have?

3. A homozygous dominant tomato plant is crossed with a homozygous recessive


tomato plant. What are the results? (T = tall t = short)

4. If two black mice are crossed, ten black and three white mice result.
a. Which allele is dominant?

b. Which allele is recessive?

c. What are the genotypes of the parents?

5. If long floppy ears is dominant (L), over short spiked ears (l) and you find a puppy
with long floppy ears, how could you determine the puppy’s genotype?
6. Tongue rolling is a dominant trait. Can a husband and wife that are not able to roll
their tongues produce a child that is able to roll his or her tongue?

7. A couple is about to have a baby, the father is heterozygous for eye color and the
mother is homozygous recessive for eye color. What is the probability the baby
will have brown eyes? (B = brown b = blue)

8. In peas, tall (T) is dominant over short (t), yellow (Y) is dominant over green (y), and
round (R) is dominant over wrinkled (r). From a cross of two triple heterozygotes,
what is the chance of getting a plant that is:
a. Tall, yellow, round?

b. Short, green, round?

9. Two plants are crosses with the following genotypes.


Trait 1 Trait 2 Trait 3 Trait 4 Trait 5 Trait 6
Organism 1 Aa bb CC Dd ee FF
Organism 2 aa Bb cc Dd Ee Ff
What is the probability of their offspring having the following genotypes?
a. Aa bb cc dd ee ff

b. Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff
c. aa bb Cc DD ee Ff

10. Consider the following crosses of pea plants and determine the genotypes of the
parents in each cross. Yellow and green refer to seed color, and tall and short
refer to plant height.
Cross Offspring
YT Yt yT yt
A Yellow, Tall Yellow, Tall 89 31 33 10

B Yellow, Short Yellow, Short 0 42 0 15

C Green, Tall Yellow, Short 21 20 24 22

Incomplete Dominance Problems:


11. In purple people eaters, 2 horns are dominant (P1)and no horns is recessive. If a
purple people eater is a heterozygote then it has 1 horn. Two heterozygote purple
people eaters are about to have a baby. What are the genotypes and phenotypes
that their baby could possess?
12. The flowers of snapdragons are dominant in red (R) and recessive in white (r). A
pure red snapdragon is crossed with a pure white snapdragon. What are the
genotypes and phenotypes of this cross?

13. A homozygous recessive female is bred to a heterozygous male. Color is incomplete


for dominance in these gerbils. D = dark brown d = white What would the results of
the cross be?

Codominance Problems:
14. Taylee is homozygous dominant for type A blood. Her father was type A blood, but
heterozygous. Her mother is also type A heterozygous. What are the probabilities
for Taylee’s older brothers blood type.

15. A mother with type A blood is about to have another baby. Her first child is type
O blood. Her husband is type B blood. What is the probability that their second
child will have a child with type AB blood?
Dihybrid Crosses:
16. In watermelons, the alleles for green color (G) and short shape (S) are dominant.
Striped color and long shaped are recessive. A plant that is long and striped is
crossed with a plant that is heterozygous for both traits. What are the possible
genotypes and phenotypes for the offspring?

17. A father with brown hair (Hh) and brown eyes (Bb) marries a woman with brown
hair (Hh) and blue eyes (bb). What is the chance they will have a blonde haired,
blue-eyed baby?

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To determine the genotype of a puppy with long floppy ears, you can conduct a test cross with a homozygous recessive individual (ll). If any offspring show the recessive phenotype (short spiked ears), the puppy's genotype is heterozygous (Ll). If all offspring have the dominant phenotype, it is likely homozygous dominant (LL).

The probability of obtaining a plant that is short (tt), green (yy), and round (Rr or RR) is calculated by multiplying individual probabilities: 1/4 for tt, 1/4 for yy, and 3/4 for round (R_), resulting in a 3/64 chance for this combination .

If the mother is genotype IAi and the father is IBi, the child can have blood type AB with a probability of 1/4, through the IAIB combination .

Since the phenotypic ratio approximately fits a 3:1 ratio, the allele for black (B) is dominant and white (b) is recessive. The genotypes of the parents must be Bb (heterozygous) each in order to produce both black and white offspring .

Offspring can be 25% green and short, 25% green and long, 25% striped and short, and 25% striped and long, given the parental genotypes GgSs (heterozygous dominant) and ggss (homozygous recessive), leading to independent assortment of traits .

The cross between a homozygous dominant tall tomato plant (TT) and a homozygous recessive short tomato plant (tt) will produce offspring with the genotype Tt. All offspring will be phenotypically tall since tallness is the dominant trait .

The possible offspring genotypes from this cross are Hh and hh. The phenotypes will be 50% with hair (Hh - heterozygous dominant) and 50% hairless (hh - homozygous recessive), as having hair is the dominant trait .

The probability is 50% for the baby to have brown eyes. The father's genotype is Bb and the mother's genotype is bb, resulting in offspring genotypes of Bb (brown eyes) and bb (blue eyes).

The possible genotypes are P1P1 (homozygous dominant, 2 horns), P1P2 (heterozygous, 1 horn - incomplete dominance), and P2P2 (homozygous recessive, no horns). The phenotypic ratio will be 1:2:1 for two horns, one horn, and no horns respectively .

When a heterozygous rabbit (Bb) is crossed with a homozygous dominant rabbit (BB), the possible genotypes of the offspring are BB and Bb. The phenotypes of all offspring will be grey, as grey is the dominant trait .

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