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Session 3 Learning Activity
Session 3: Inheritance Problems II 30 points

Fill in the Punnett squares AND answer all the questions for a chance to earn full credit.

1. Color blindness is an X-linked recessive trait. If a color blind woman married a man who had
normal color vision, what are the chances of any color blind children? (2 points)

There is a 50% chance that any of the children will be color blind.

Xc Xc
XC XcXC XcXC
Y YXc YXc

2. The bleeders disease, hemophilia, is X-linked recessive. If a normal male and a female who is
a carrier of the hemophilia allele decide to have children, what are the chances any of the
offspring will have hemophilia? Can male offspring be carriers of the trait? (3 points)

It’s a 50% chance that the offpring will have hemophilia, no males cannot be a carrier because
they only have one X chromosome and if it were to be affected that would have the trait
rather than being a carrier.

XH Y

XH XH XH XH Y

Xh XHXh XhY

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3. Congenital generalized hypertrichosis (CGH) is an X-linked dominant condition. If a CGH

male has children with a healthy female, what are the chances that any male offspring will have
the condition? What are the chances that any female offspring will have CGH? (3 points)

There is a 0% chance that any of the male offspring will get the condition. It’s a 100% chance
that the females will have the condition.

XG Y
Xg XGXg XgY
Xg XGXg XgY

4. Color blindness is an X-linked recessive trait. List both possible parental crosses that would
produce female offspring who are color blind? (3 points)

Insert your answer here

Xc Xc
Xc Xc Xc Xc Xc
Y XcY XcY

XC Xc
Xc Xc XC Xc Xc
Y XCY XcY

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Instructions for pedigree questions 5-11:

1. Determine the most likely pattern of inheritance in each pedigree. Here are your choices:
 Autosomal Dominant
 Autosomal Recessive
 X-linked Dominant
 X-linked Recessive
 Mitochondrial
2. What is the reasoning behind each of your answers?
 Although you are only required to provide one answer per pedigree, more than one
correct answer may be possible.
You will earn full credit for a correct answer AND a reasonable explanation for your
answer.

5. Determine of the pattern of inheritance. (2 points)

Autosomal dominate, it has two affected parents and have unaffected offspring, so it must be
autosomal dominate because recessive can skip generations.

6. Determine of the pattern of inheritance. (2 points)

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Autosomal recessive, it has two unaffected parents which produce and affected offspring.
With the parents being Rr and the affected offspring being rr

7. Determine of the pattern of inheritance. (2 points)

Autosomal recessive cause only once child is affected and has two unaffected parents. 25%
chance that one will have it with two heterozygous carrier parents.

8. Determine of the pattern of inheritance. (2 points)

X linked recessive, because it skipped a generation and mom is a carrier, therefore two males
will have the trait, and neither dads are affected so they are normal which results in the other
offspring being normal.

9. Determine of the pattern of inheritance. (3 points)

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Autosomal recessive, the males and females are affected equally by the trait. The trait only
manifests if the individual has two copies of the affected recessive allele. The parents are
carriers because they both have one copy of the mutant allele.

10. Determine of the pattern of inheritance. (4 points)

Autosomal dominant because it doesn’t skip a generation, and it affects the offspring of either
gender.

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11. Determine of the pattern of inheritance. (4 points)

Mitochondrial. Because the trait is passed through the female to the offspring.

Extra Credit (3 points). A recessive allele on the X chromosome is responsible for color
blindness in humans. A woman with normal vision whose father is color-blind marries a color-
blind man. What is the probability that the couple’s son will be color blind?

(HINT: Using the pedigree diagram and/or Punnett square may help answer this question)
50% chance that their son will be colorblind.

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I. Xc Y

II. XC XCXc XCY

Xc Xc Xc XcY

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