Probability Exercises in Mendelian Genetics
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1)Inhumans,htesrtagihtnosecharacetr(D)isdomnian,twhelihteuputrnednosecharacetr(d)isrecesvie.
Complete the tables for the different combinations of alleles in the parents. Then calculate the percentages.
relative to the sons in various cases.
d d D d D D
D D d
D d d
p(straightnose)=…………% p(straightnose)=…………% p(straightnose)=…………%
p(noseup)=...% p(noseup)=…………% p (nose up) = …………%
2) The dark hair trait (S) is dominant over the blonde hair trait (s). If one parent is
heterozygous the other is homozygous recessive, what is the probability that a child is born with hair
dark? Which instead is born with blonde hair? Before answering, complete the table with the
possible combinations.
In humans, the dark color of the eyes is determined by a dominant gene, while the color
clear is linked to a recessive gene.
We denote the dominant gene with N and the recessive gene with n.
a) Establish the eye color of:
an individual with genotype NN
2. an individual with genotype Nn
3. an individual with genotype nn.
b) Consider the case where the parents are a homozygous woman with light eyes and a man
heterozygote. Calculate the probability that is born:
A male child with light-colored eyes
A daughter with light eyes
c) Consider the case where both parents have dark eyes (it is not known the
genotype). Analyze all possible cases and calculate the probability that one is born for each of them.
child (regardless of being male or female) with light eyes?
4)Inman,thetraitfu'llips'(C)isdominantoverthetraitth'inlips'(c).Ifa
A man with full lips marries a woman with thin lips, what is the probability that a child will be born?
a female child with thin lips? (note: the father can be heterozygous or
homozygous, consider both cases.
5) In the fruit fly, the allele 'long wings', indicated by L, is dominant over the allele 'wings short'.
cut", indicated by l. Furthermore, the allele for red eyes (R) is dominant over the one for "white eyes" (r).
a) crossing a fruit fly with short wings and white eyes with a heterozygous fruit fly for
both characters ("wing length" and "eye color"), calculate the probability that
nasca
− a midge with genotype LlRr;
− a gnat with short wings and white eyes;
− a gnat with long wings and white eyes;
− a midge with short wings and red eyes.
b) crossing a dominant homozygous fly for both traits with a fly
heterozygous for both traits, calculate the probability that a child is born:
− a gnat with genotype LlRr;
− a midge with short wings and white eyes;
− a gnat with long wings and white eyes;
− a little fly with short wings and red eyes.
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