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The document contains a series of genetics problems for a biology course, focusing on inheritance patterns, genotypes, and phenotypes across various organisms including humans, plants, and animals. Each problem requires students to show their work, such as Punnett squares, to demonstrate understanding of genetic principles. The assignment is due on October 23 and is worth 25 points.

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The document contains a series of genetics problems for a biology course, focusing on inheritance patterns, genotypes, and phenotypes across various organisms including humans, plants, and animals. Each problem requires students to show their work, such as Punnett squares, to demonstrate understanding of genetic principles. The assignment is due on October 23 and is worth 25 points.

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Genetics Problems

Bio 112
Due Oct. 23 - worth 25 points Name_______________________________

Note: It is of little value to copy the answers to these problems from someone else. Folks who do this
think they understand how to do the problems, but usually discover otherwise when it comes time to
take the test. Indicate the genotypes of all individuals in each problem, if possible. Please show all of
your work (Punnett squares where appropriate) for each question to get credit for the answer.

1. If a man heterozygous for widow’s peak (dominant) marries a woman heterozygous for this trait
(continuous hairline is the recessive form of the gene), what are the chances the children will
have a widow’s peak? will have a continuous hairline?

2. Pure bred bean plants with green pods were crossed with pure bred bean plants with yellow pods.
All of the F1 plants had green pods and were allowed to interbreed. Of the 580 F2 plants, 435
had green pods and 145 had yellow pods. Which characteristic is dominant? recessive? Of the
F2 plants, what fraction are likely to be homozygous? Using G to represent the dominant trait,
and g to represent the recessive trait, write out a plan showing the segregation of traits from the
parental to the F2 plants.

3. In peas, yellow color is dominant to green. What will be the phenotypes and genotypes of the
offspring of the following crosses? Please draw out the Punnett square for each cross.
a. homozygous yellow x green
b. heterozygous yellow x green
c. heterozygous yellow x homozygous yellow
d. heterozygous yellow x heterozygous yellow

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4. In humans, the allele for short fingers is dominant over that for long fingers. If a person with
short fingers had one parent with long fingers and marries a person with long fingers, what are
the chances for each child to have short fingers? Explain.

5. In rabbits, black hair is due to a dominant allele B and brown color to its recessive allele b.
Short hair is dominant to long hair. In a cross between a homozygous black, long-haired rabbit
and a brown, homozygous short-haired one, what would the F1 generation look like? the F2
generation? If an F1 rabbit reproduced with a brown, long-haired rabbit, what phenotypes, and
in what ratio, would you expect? What is the name for this last type of cross?

6. In horses, black coat (B) is dominant to brown coat (b), and being a trotter (T) is dominant to
being a pacer (t). A black pacer is crossed with a brown horse who is a trotter. The offspring is
a brown pacer. Give genotypes of all of these horses.

7. A woman with blood type B gives birth to a child with blood type B. Could a man with type A
blood be the father? Explain.

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8. A woman is color-blind (sex-linked). What are the chances that her sons will be color-blind? If
she is married to a man with normal vision, what are the chances that her daughters will be color
blind? will be carriers?

9. Both parents are right-handed (R = right-handed, r = left-handed) and have normal vision. Their
son is left-handed and is color-blind. Give the genotype of each person.

10. A man with normal vision and widow’s peak married a color-blind woman with a continuous
hairline. The woman has a color-blind daughter with a widow’s peak. What are the genotypes
of all persons? Is this man the girl’s father? How do you know?

11. A son with cystic fibrosis is born to a couple who appears normal. What are the chances that any
child born to this couple will have cystic fibrosis? If this couple had three normal children, what
are the chances that the fourth child will have cystic fibrosis?

12. A couple wishes to have two children, a boy and a girl, and want the boy to be the oldest. What
are the chances that this will happen? What are the chances that they will have two boys?

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