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Genetics Xlinked

This document provides a genetics worksheet on X-linked traits in fruit flies, humans, and cats. It includes questions about predicted genotypes and phenotypes of offspring from crosses between parents with known genotypes for traits like eye color in flies, hemophilia in humans, and coat color in cats. The traits are sex-linked and follow patterns of X-linked inheritance.

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Genetics Xlinked

This document provides a genetics worksheet on X-linked traits in fruit flies, humans, and cats. It includes questions about predicted genotypes and phenotypes of offspring from crosses between parents with known genotypes for traits like eye color in flies, hemophilia in humans, and coat color in cats. The traits are sex-linked and follow patterns of X-linked inheritance.

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Dominic Walter
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Name _____________________________

Genetics: X Linked Genes


****In fruit flies, eye color is a sex linked trait. Red is dominant to white ****

1. What are the sexes and eye colors of flies with the following genotypes:

X R X r Female and red X R Y ____________


_____________ Male and red X r X r Female and white
____________
R R r
X X ____________ X Y ____________
Female and red Male and white

2. What are the genotypes of these flies:

white eyed, male ____________


XrY XRXr
red eyed female (heterozygous) ________
white eyed, female ___________
XrXr red eyed, male ___________
XRY

3. Show the cross of a white eyed female X r X r with a red-eyed male X R Y .


Xr Xr
XR XRXr XRXr

Y XrY XrY

4. Show a cross between a pure red eyed female and a white eyed male.
What are the genotypes of the parents:
XRXR
___________& XrY
_______________

How many are:


white eyed, male ____
white eyed, female ____
red eyed, male ____
red eyed, female ____

5. Show the cross of a red eyed female (heterozygous) and a red eyed male. What are the genotypes
of the parents?
___________ & ________________

How many are:


white eyed, male____
white eyed, female ___
red eyed, male ____
red eyed, female ____

Math: What if in the above cross, 100


males were produced and 200 females.
How many total red-eyed flies would there
be?
____________
6. In humans, hemophilia is a sex linked trait. Females can be normal, carriers, or have the disease.
Males will either have the disease or not (but they won’t ever be carriers)
= female, normal
= male, normal

= female, carrier
= male, hemophiliac

= female, hemophiliac

Show the cross of a man who has hemophilia with a woman who is a carrier.

What is the probability that their children will have the disease? __________

7. A woman who is a carrier marries a normal man. Show the cross. What is the probability
that their children will have hemophilia? What sex will a child in the family with hemophilia
be?

8. A woman who has hemophilia marries a normal man. How many of their children will have
hemophilia, and what is their sex?

9. In cats, the gene for calico (multicolored) cats is codominant. Females that receive a B and an R
gene have black and oRange splotches on white coats. Males can only be black or orange, but never
calico.
Here’s what a calico female’s genotype would look like. XB XR
Show the cross of a female calico cat with a black male?

What percentage of the kittens will be black and male? _________


What percentage of the kittens will be calico and male? _________
What percentage of the kittens will be calico and female? _________

10. Show the cross of a female black cat, with a male orange cat.

What percentage of the kittens will be calico and female? _____


What color will all the male cats be? ______

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