Laboratory Activity 1

MONOHYBRID CROSS

Problems and Questions

1. Wendy has curly hair and her husband Rick has straight hair. Wendy’s father is bald, but
once had curly hair, and her mother has straight her.
a. What is Wendy’s genotype? _____Cc______
b. What is Rick’s genotype? _______cc_________
c. What is the genotype of Wendy’s father? __CC/Cc__
d. What is the genotype of Wendy’s mother?___cc_____
e. What will be the genotypes and the corresponding phenotypes of their children?
Genotype Phenotype
__Cc___ _Curly hair_
__cc___ _Straight hair_

f. What is the mode of inheritance? Complete Dominance

2. A normal man marries a woman who is a carrier for hemophilia. What will be the
genotypes and corresponding phenotypes of their children?
a. What is the mode of inheritance? Sex-Linked Recessive Traits
b. What is the genotype of the man? ____XHY_____
c. What is the genotype of the woman? ___XHXh___
d. What are the genotypes and the corresponding phenotypes of their children?
Genotype Phenotype
H H
_X X _ Normal, non-carrier daughter
H h
_X X _ Normal, carrier daughter
H
_X Y_ Normal son
h
_X Y_ Son with hemophilia
e. What is the probability that one of their daughters has hemophilia? 0 or none
f. What is the probability that one of their sons has hemophilia? 25%
g. What is the probability that one of their daughters is a carrier? 25%
h. What is the probability that one of their sons is a carrier? 0 or none
i. What is the probability that one of their daughters is normal? 25%
j. What is the probability that one of their sons is normal? 25%

3. The color of one species of radish is controlled by a pair of alleles which show no
dominance. The color may be red, pink, or white. A cross between a red and a white radish
always produce a pink radish.
 a. What is the mode of inheritance? Incomplete Dominance
b. What is the genotype of the red radish? ___r1r1___
c. What is the genotype of the pink radish? ___r1r2___
d. What is the genotype of the white radish? __r2r2__
e. What are the genotypes and the corresponding phenotypes of the F2 offspring?
Genotype Phenotype
__r1r1__ Red radish
__r1r2__ Pink radish
__r2r2__ White radish

4. In soybeans, broad leaves and narrow leaves are both recessive, the hybrid being
intermediate. A plant with intermediate leaves is crossed to another plant with narrow
leaves.
a. What is the mode of inheritance? Incomplete Dominance
b. Give the genotype of the plant with broad leaves. ____b1b1_____
c. Give the genotype of the plant with narrow leaves. ___b2b2____
d. Give the genotype of the plant with intermediate leaves.__b1b2___
e. Give the genotypes and the corresponding phenotypes of the progeny of the above
cross.
Genotype Phenotype
__b1b2___ Intermediate leaves
__b2b2___ Narrow leaves

f. Give the genotypic ratio. ___2 b1b2_:_2 b2b2____

g. Give the phenotypic ratio. 2 Intermediate : 2 Narrow

5. When a white guinea pig is crossed to a yellow guinea pig, all the progeny are cream-
colored. From a cross of two such F1’s, the F2 showed 32 white 66 cream, and 30 yellow
guinea pigs.
a. What is the mode of inheritance? Incomplete Dominance
b. Identify the genotype of the white guinea pig. __ w1w1__
c. Identify the genotype of the yellow guinea pig. __ w2w2__
d. Identify the genotype of the cream-colored guinea pig. __ w1w2__
e. Identify the genotypes and the corresponding phenotypes of the F2 progeny.

Genotype Phenotype
_ w1w1_ White guinea pig
_ w1w2_ Cream-colored guinea pig
_ w2w2_ Yellow guinea pig