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Inheritance Worksheet

This document contains a worksheet with genetics problems and questions. It includes sections on cell division, inheritance of traits, genetic crosses, and human sex determination. The questions cover topics like dominant and recessive alleles, Punnett squares, meiosis, and determining sex based on X and Y chromosomes.

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Inheritance Worksheet

This document contains a worksheet with genetics problems and questions. It includes sections on cell division, inheritance of traits, genetic crosses, and human sex determination. The questions cover topics like dominant and recessive alleles, Punnett squares, meiosis, and determining sex based on X and Y chromosomes.

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Raahil Mohamed
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WORKSHEET - UNIT 17

SECTION A

1. Cells are formed by the division of existing cells. Four different cells are shown.
Which cell is produced by meiosis?

2. Albinism is an inherited condition in which pigment does not develop in the skin, hair
and eyes.
The allele for albinism is recessive.
What are the chances of albino parents having an albino child?
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3. In pea plants the allele for tall, T, is dominant to the allele for dwarf, t.
Which cross would produce plants in the proportion of 1 tall: 1 dwarf?
A TT × Tt B Tt × Tt C Tt × tt D tt × tt

4. The diagram shows a cross between heterozygous tall pea plants

Which statement is not correct?


A Offspring E and H are both homozygous.
B Offspring F and G are both heterozygous.
C The phenotypes of offspring E, F and G are the same.
D The ratio of different phenotypes in the offspring is 1: 1.

5. The shape of a person’s earlobes is determined by a single gene. This gene has
dominant and recessive alleles.
The allele for detached earlobes is dominant to the allele for attached earlobes.
The diagram shows the inheritance of earlobe shape in a family
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SECTION B

1. (a) (i) Explain the meaning of the term dominant allele.


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(ii) State the name for the alternative forms of a gene.

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2. A geneticist was asked to investigate the inheritance of acatalasia in dogs.


The normal allele is represented by B and the mutant allele is represented by b.
The geneticist made the diagram in Fig. 3.1 to show the inheritance of acatalasia in a family
of dogs. The shaded symbols indicate the dogs with acatalasia.

Fig 3.1

(b) (i) State the genotypes of the dogs identified as 1, 2 and 3 in Fig. 3.1.

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(ii) The geneticist crossed dog 4 with dog 5. Approximately half of the offspring had

acatalasia and half the offspring did not have acatalasia.

Complete the genetic diagram to show how this is possible

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4. (a) The production of human gametes involves the type of nuclear division known as
Meiosis. State two reasons why meiosis is suitable for gamete production.

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(b) The sex of a human fetus is determined by the sex chromosomes, X and Y.

Fig. 5.1 shows the determination of sex in four different examples.

Examples 3 and 4 show sex determination in twins

(i) Explain how the sex of a fetus is determined

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