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Practice Questions 1-10

Apply-Extend 1. January 15-17
By the end of section meeting, you should be able to:
1. How many
homologous pairs here?
• Competently answer questions about number of
homologous pairs, and haploid/diploid 2. How many replicated
chromosome number relative to mitosis and chromosomes?
meiosis.
• Generate Punnett squares and predict the ratio
of offspring genotypes and phenotypes when
given information about parental phenotypes and
the dominance pattern.
• Enter your correct answers to the eight AE1
questions on the Canvas homework assignment

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• Meiosis is reduction 5. If the diploid number (2n) for a species is

division. 50, how many homologous pairs are in that
• What are the products of species’ genome, and how many
meiosis?
3. If a cell with one pair of
chromosomes are in a sperm cell of that
chromosomes undergoes species ?
meiosis, how many cells A. 50, 50
result, and how many
chromosomes are in each of B. 50, 25
the resulting cells? C. 25, 25
D. 25, 50
4. How about a cell with 23
pairs of chromosomes?

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Incomplete dominance –heterozygote

Practice Punnett Squares: phenotype unlike either homozygote.
6. A man has six fingers on each hand and six toes
Palomino Horses (C1C2)
on each foot. His wife and their daughter have the When two palominos mate, they do not
normal number of digits. Having extra digits is a produce all palomino offspring
dominant trait. What fraction of this couple’s
• chestnut (homozygous C 1C 1),
children would be expected to have extra digits?
[question from text, p 238] • cream (homozygous C 2C 2), or
• palomino (heterozygous C 1C 2)
Draw the Punnett square and answer 7. If you wanted to produce all palomino offspring
Answer this too: Tell why it is helpful to know that (C 1C 2), what two genotypes would you mate?
this couple has a child with normal number of digits.
[metacognition]

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8. In Mendel’s pea plants, the purple flower color allele (F) is Inheritance of ABO
completely dominant over the white flower color allele (f). blood groups. We
Therefore, only homozygous recessive individuals have
white flowers. use the letter I for
If you have a pea plant of unknown genotype with purple the three different
flowers, with which of the following individuals would you alleles.
cross it with to determine for sure whether the purple-flower
plant is homozygous (FF) or heterozygous (Ff)? Assume a Genotype Phenotype
cross produces 20 offspring, not hundreds.
IAi or IAIA Type A
A. Any purple-flower individual
B. Any white-flower individual IBi or IBIB Type B
C. A purple-flower individual known to be heterozygous Ff
D. A purple-flower individual known to be homozygous FF
IAIB Type AB
ii Type O
So, how does this demonstrate (a) multiple
alleles and (b) co-dominance?
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9. A woman of blood type B marries a man with 10. In 1944 Charlie Chaplin was involved in a
legal battle over the paternity of a child born to a
blood type A. Both of them have a parent with
young starlet. The baby was blood type B, the
type O blood. From the information given, mother type A, and Chaplin type O. Based only
determine the genotypes of the couple, draw a on this information, is Chaplin likely to have been
Punnett square, and answer what blood types the father of the child?
(phenotypes) are possible in their children? (Incidentally, at the time of the trial, blood group
A. Only blood types A or B. evidence was not admissible in California courts,
B. Blood types A or B or O and Charlie Chaplin was declared responsible for
the child's support.)
C. Blood types A or B or AB
D. Blood types A or B or AB or O.

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AE1-Q2. In cats, the allele for short hair (H) is

AE1 questions 1-8 to answer on Canvas dominant over the allele for long hair (h). A
AE1-Q1. If a cell with genome of 20 pairs of female cat shows the short hair trait, but in
chromosomes undergoes normal meiosis, previous litters she produced some long-hair
how many cells result, and how many offspring. If this short-hair female is now mated
chromosomes are in each of the resulting with a long-hair male, what fraction of their
cells? offspring is expected to have long hair?
A. Two cells, each with 20 chromosomes A. 0 (none)
B. Two cells, each with 40 chromosomes B. 1/4
C. Four cells, each with 10 chromosomes C. 1/2
D. Four cells, each with 20 chromosomes D. 3/4
E. Four cells, each with 40 chromosomes E. 1 (all)

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AE1-Q3. In cats, the agouti allele for the “tabby” AE1-Q4. Sickle-cell anemia is inherited as a simple recessive
traits. Heterozygote carriers do not have sickle-cell anemia.
coat pattern (A) is dominant over the allele for
Neither John nor Maria have the disease sickle cell anemia, but
solid color (a). (We are ignoring the effect of other since it occurs in their families they have been tested and know
modifier genes for cat coat color.) they both are heterozygous carriers of the recessive sickle-cell
allele. Draw the Punnett square and answer the two parts:

If two solid black cats (non-tabby) mate, what (a) What proportion of their offspring are expected to have sickle
cell anemia? (b) What proportion of their offspring are expected
proportion of their offspring would be expected to to be heterozygous carriers of the recessive sickle-cell allele?
be solid black? A. 0 ; 1/4
A. 0 (none) B. 1/4; 1/4
C. 1/4; 1/2
B. 1/4 D. 1/2; 1/2
C. 1/2 E. 1/2; 3/4

D. 3/4 Think about this: If only one parent is a carrier, what proportion of
E. 1 (all) their offspring would be expected to have sickle-cell anemia?
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AE1 Q6. Which of these sets of parents

AE1 Q5. If an infant born to a mother (blood type phenotype given) is
with blood type O is also type O, probably not correctly matched to their
possible types for the father are: child (by blood type)
A. AB A. Parents A and B, child AB
B. O or A B. Parents A and O, child AB
C. A or B C. Parents A and O, child O
D. O only
D. Parents A and B, child O
E. O, A, or B.
E. Parents AB and B, child AB

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AE1 Q7. Flower color alleles in snapdragons show

AE1 Q8. Classical albinism results from a
incomplete dominance. When pure-bred
particular recessive allele. Which of the following
homozygous red-flowering snapdragons are
are the expected phenotypes of offspring from
crossed with pure-bred homozygous white-
an albino woman and a normally pigmented man
flowering snapdragons, all the offspring are
who has an albino father? [from an old exam]
heterozygous and have pink flowers. When two
A. 3/4 normal pigment, 1/4 albino
pink snapdragons are crossed, what proportion of
their offspring would be expected to be pink? B. 3/4 albino, 1/4 normal pigment
A. 0 (none) C. 1/2 normal pigment, 1/2 albino
B. 0.25 D. All normal pigment
C. 0.50 E. All albino
D. 0.75
E. 1.0 (all)

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