PROBLEM SESSION II
1) The black and yellow pigments of coat color in cats are determined by a pair of X-linked alleles.
Males are either black or yellow, while females are black or calico (patches of black and yellow),
or yellow.
a) What phenotypes would be expected from a cross between black female and a yellow
male? In what proportions?
b) There are 2 calico females, 1 yellow female, 2 black males, and 3 yellow males. What are
the probable phenotypes of parents?
2) Vermilioneye color in Drosophila (v) is an X-linked recessive allele. Wild type (v+) is brick red.
What phenotypic ratios are expected from the crosses?
a) vermilion female x wild type male
b) homozygous wild type female x vermilion male
c) heterozygous female x vermilion male
3) Mice having an XO setup are fertile females. If at least 1 X is required for viability, what is the
sex ratio among surviving progeny from the mating of XO female x XY male ?
4) Red kernel color in wheat results from the presence of at least one dominant allele at each of two
independently segregating genes, R-B-. Kernels on doubly homozygous recessive plants are
white, and the genotypes R-bb and rrB- result in brown kernel color. If plants true breeding for red
are crossed with true breeding white,
a) What is the expected F1 phenotype(s) in what ratio(s) ?
b) What are the expected F2 phenotype(s) and ratio(s) ?
5) White leghorn chickens are known to be homozygous for a dominant allele C (responsible for
colored feathers), and also for a dominant allele I that prevents expression of C. The white
wyandotte breed is homozygous recessive for both genes. What proportion of the F2 progeny from
white leghorn x white wyandotte F1 hybrids can be expected to have colored feathers?