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This document provides a genetics worksheet with 15 questions covering Mendelian genetics concepts such as determining genotypes and phenotypes from given genetic information, setting up and solving punnett squares for monohybrid and dihybrid crosses to determine expected offspring ratios, carrier status, and blood type inheritance. The questions assess understanding of dominance relationships, heterozygous and homozygous conditions, and genetic crosses.

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Genetics Problems Worksheet

This document provides a genetics worksheet with 15 questions covering Mendelian genetics concepts such as determining genotypes and phenotypes from given genetic information, setting up and solving punnett squares for monohybrid and dihybrid crosses to determine expected offspring ratios, carrier status, and blood type inheritance. The questions assess understanding of dominance relationships, heterozygous and homozygous conditions, and genetic crosses.

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Genetics Problems Worksheet

1. For each genotype, indicate whether it is heterozygous (HE) or homozygous (HO)

AA (HO) Ee (HE) Ii (HE) Mm (HE)


Bb (HE) ff (HO) Jj (HE) nn (HO)
Cc (HE) GG (HO) kk (HO) OO (HO)
Dd (HE) HH (HO) Ll (HE) Pp (HE)

2. For each of the genotypes below, determine the phenotype.

Purple flowers are dominant to white flowers Brown eyes are dominant to blue eyes
PP _________purple__________ BB __________brown___________
Pp _________purple__________ Bb __________brown___________
pp _________white___________ bb ___________blue____________
Round seeds are dominant to wrinkled Bobtails are recessive (long tails dominant)
RR _________round____________ TT __________long_____________
Rr __________round____________ Tt ___________long ____________
rr __________wrinkled__________ tt ___________bobtail___________

3. For each phenotype, list the genotypes. (Remember to use the letter of the dominant trait)

Straight hair is dominant to curly. Pointed heads are dominant to round heads.
______SS_______ straight _______PP_____ pointed
______Ss_______ straight _______Pp_____ pointed
______ss_______ curly _______pp_____ round

4. Set up the square for each of the crosses listed below. The trait being studied is round seeds
(dominant) and wrinkled seeds (recessive)

Rr x rr
Rr Rr

rr rr

What percentage of the offspring will be round? 50 percent

Rr x Rr
RR Rr

Rr rr

What percentage of the offspring will be round? 75 percent

RR x Rr

RR Rr

RR Rr

What percentage of the offspring will be round? 100 percent

Practice with Crosses. Show all work!

5. A TT (tall) plant is crossed with a tt (short plant).


     What percentage of the offspring will be tall? 100 percent

TT x tt

Tt Tt

Tt Tt

6. A Tt plant is crossed with a Tt plant.


    What percentage of the offspring will be short? 25 percent
Tt x Tt

TT Tt

Tt tt

7. A heterozygous round seeded plant (Rr) is crossed with a


homozygous round seeded plant (RR).
What percentage of the offspring will be homozygous (RR)? 50 percent

Rr x RR

RR RR

Rr Rr

8. What is the phenotypic ratio for a dihybrid cross?

The phenotypic ratio for a dihybrid cross is 9:3:3:1.

9. In pea plants purple flowers are dominant to white flowers.


If two white flowered plants are cross, what percentage of their
offspring will be white flowered?

One hundred percent of their offspring will be white flowered.

10. Why is the dominant allele not always dominant, or shown, in great numbers in a population?

How common an allele is does not only have to do with it being dominant or recessive. There are
other factors that can explain why the dominant allele is not always shown in great numbers in a
population. One of these is that they can be lethal. Another is that traits are sometimes affected
by multiple genes. People with heterozygous genotypes carry recessive traits and give them to
their offspring. The location of the population can also play a big role because some traits are
very prevalent in specific races.
11. Two plants, both heterozygous for the gene that controls
flower color are crossed. What percentage of their offspring
will have purple flowers? Seventy-five percent of their offspring will have purple flowers.
What percentage will have white flowers? Twenty-five percent of their offspring will have white
flowers.

12. In guinea pigs, the allele for short hair is dominant.


What genotype would a heterozygous short haired guinea pig have? Ss
What genotype would a pure breeding short haired guinea pig have? SS
What genotype would a long haired guinea pig have? ss

13. If a woman is a carrier for colorblindness (XcX) has a child with a man who is colorblind
(XcY) can they have a colorblind female? Show your work.

Yes, the woman and the man can have a colorblind female.

XcX x XcY

XcXc XcY

XXc XY

14. Show the cross for two heterozygous guinea pigs.


What percentage of the offspring will have short hair? Seventy-five percent will have short hair.
What percentage of the offspring will have long hair? Twenty-five percent will have long hair.

Ss x Ss

SS Ss

Ss ss

15. If a man with type A blood has a child with a woman with type B blood can their offspring
have type O blood? Show your work.
Yes, the man and woman can have offspring with type O blood.

IAi x IBi

IAIB IAi

IBi ii

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