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2. You have a purple-flowered pea plant. You do not know its genotype. Diagram the test-cross you
would conduct to determine the plant’s genotype and what results you would expect if the plant was
heterozygous and if the plant was homozygous
Test cross (1): Pp x pp 50% Purple, 50% White
Test cross (2): PP x pp 100% Purple
3. You are studying five traits in Pentids, an amazonian flying beetle. You have identified each trait as
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belonging to separate alleles located on separate chromosomes and have categorized those alleles as
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A,B,C,D, and E, respectively. After years of controlled breeding experiments, you have developed your
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Pentid lines to the point where you can control their genotypes with certainty. You perform the following
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cross:
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P: (AaBbCcDdEe) x (AAbbCCDdEe)
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Predict the probability of recovering offspring of each of the following genotypes from this parental
cross:
i. AaBbCcDdEe 1/32
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iv. AaBbccDdee 0
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2. A man who has type O blood marries a woman who is type AB. What are the chances that their child
will have each of the following blood types?
1. Type A 50% 4. Type O 0%
2. What is the probability that they will have a Type A son and a Type B Daughter? 12.5%
3. Type B 50%
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3. Red-Green color blindness is inherited as an X-linked recessive trait in humans. A woman, who’s
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mother had red-green color blindness marries a color blind man. What are the chances that their child
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will be:
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1. a color-blind male? 25% 4. a normal male? 25%
2. a color blind female? 25% 5. a normal female? 25%
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3. The couple has a color blind male. What are the chances that their next child will be a normal
female? 25%
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4. You have conducted exhaustive experiments studying the inheritance of four genes (A,B,C and D) that
are all on chromosome 3 in Drosophila melanogaster. You have recorded the following frequencies of
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ab 20
ac 28
ad 5
bc 10
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bd 15
cd 24
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