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Remember: Homozygous means both alleles are the SAME (PP, pp, SS, etc.).
Heterozygous means both alleles are DIFFERENT (Pp, Ss, Rr, etc.).

SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS ON YOUR OWN PAPER! SHOW ALL WORK, AND CIRCLE YOUR
ANSWER!

1. In fruit flies, long wings (L) are dominant over short wings (l).

a. What is the genotype of a heterozygous long-winged fly?

b. What is the genotype of a short-winged fly?

c. What is the genotype of a homozygous long-winged fly?

2. What is the phenotype of:

a. LL b. Ll c. Ll

3. If two fruit flies breed and produce long-winged and short-winged offspring in
approximately a 3:1 ratio, what is probably the genotype of the parents? Prove
your answer with a Punnett square.

4. If a long-winged fly and a short-winged fly produce offspring in the approximate

ratio of 1 long-winged to 1 short-winged (1:1), what is the probable genotype of
the parents? Prove your answer with a Punnett square.

5. Show all work! What is the genotypic and phenotypic ratio of the offspring of:

a. Two heterozygous long-winged flies;

b. Two homozygous long-winged flies; and

c. A heterozygous long-winged fly and a short-winged fly.

6. In fruit flies, red eyes (E) are dominant over white eyes (e).

a. What is the genotype for a white-eyed fly?

b. What is the phenotype for a fly (Ee)?

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7. What would be the genotypic and phenotypic ratios of a heterozygous red-eyed fly
and a white-eyed fly? Prove your answer with a Punnett square.

8. If the two flies in question #7 had 320 offspring, how many would you expect to
have red eyes? White eyes?

9. Two heterozygous red-eyed flies are mated and produce 420 offspring. How many
of these would be white-eyed?

10. How many of these (#9) would be heterozygous?

11. A red-eyed fruit fly has a red-eyed parent and a white-eyed parent. What are
the genotypes of all three flies? Prove your answer with a Punnett square.

12. A white-eyed fruit fly has two red-eyed parents. What are the genotypes of
all three flies? Prove your answer with a Punnett square.

13. If you can roll your tongue, that is a dominant trait (R = roller). If you
cannot, you are recessive for the trait (r = non-roller).

a. What is/are the genotype(s) of a tongue-roller?

b. What is the genotype of a non tongue-roller?

14. A student cannot roll her tongue. Both of her parents can. What is her
genotype? Prove your answer with a Punnett square.

15. A student can roll her tongue, but her father cannot. What is her genotype,
and what is her father’s genotype?

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