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Genetics Practice Problems: Punnett Square

Complete these Punnett squares and answer the questions asked. 1. In humans, dimples are a recessive trait, meaning that having no dimples is the dominant trait. If a heterozygous male is crossed with a homozygous recessive female, what percentage of the offspring will have dimples?

. In a certain species of flower, tall is dominant to short. If a heterozygous male is crossed with a homozygous recessive female, what are the genotypic and phenotypic ratios of their offspring?

!. In a certain species of rat, "lack color dominates white. #ive the genotypic and phenotypic ratios if two heterozygous rats are crossed.

$. In another species of flower, yellow flowers are dominant to pink flowers. % homozygous pink flower mates with a heterozygous yellow flower. &hat are the genotypic and phenotypic ratios of the offspring?

'. %l"inism (lack of pigment in man) is caused "y a recessive gene. If a heterozygous man crosses with a heterozygous female. &hat is the chance that they will have an al"ino child?