Monohybrid Practice Problems and Solutions

Straight hair is dominant and curly hair is recessive.

1. Diagram a Punnett Square for 2 heterozygous
parents.
2. What is the parents’ genotype(s)?
3. What is the parents’ phenotypes(s)?
4. What is the genotypic ratio for the offspring?
5. What is the probability of producing a curly-
haired child? (In percent)

White-spotted beetles are dominant over solid

colored beetles. A heterozygous male is crossed with
a solid colored female.
6. What is the mother’s genotype?
7. What is the father’s genotype?
8. Diagram a Punnett Square for this cross.
9. What is the genotypic ratio?
10.What is the phenotypic ratio?
11.What is the probability of producing a spotted
beetle?
ANSWERS

1. S s S = straight hair s = curly hair

SS Ss
S
s Ss ss

(You could also have used H = straight hair, h = curly hair)

2. Ss
3. straight hair
4. 1:2:1
5. 25%
6. ww
7. Ww
8. W w
Ww ww
w
Ww ww
w (You could also have used B for Beetle)

9. 1:1
10. 1:1
11. 50%

Monohybrid Practice Problems and Solutions

Straight hair is dominant and curly hair is

recessive.
1. Diagram a Punnett Square for 2 heterozygous
parents.
2. What is the parents’ genotype(s)?
3. What is the parents’ phenotypes(s)?
4. What is the genotypic ratio for the offspring?
5. What is the probability of producing a curly-
haired child? (In percent)
White-spotted beetles are dominant over solid
colored beetles. A heterozygous male is crossed
with a solid colored female.
6. What is the mother’s genotype?
7. What is the father’s genotype?
8. Diagram a Punnett Square for this cross.
9. What is the genotypic ratio?
10.What is the phenotypic ratio?
11.What is the probability of producing a
spotted beetle?