DE LA SALLE LIPA – INTEGRATED SCHOOL – SHS- SCIENCE AREA -GENERAL BIOLOGY 2

Name: Lance Frederick M. Dimaano

Answer the following questions using your knowledge of sex-linked inheritance and
drawing pedigrees.
1. Colorblindness is a recessive, sex-linked disorder in humans. A color-blind man has a child
with a woman who is a carrier of the disorder.

Key: XN = normal vision Xn = colorblindness

a. What is the genotype of the man? (1pt)

XnY
b. What is the genotype of the woman? (1pt)
XNXn
c. Create a Punnett Square for this problem. (4 pts)

XN Xn
Xn X NX n XnXn
Y X NY Xn Y

d. What is the chance that the child will be colorblind? (2pts)`

50%
e. What is the chance that a daughter will be colorblind? (2pts)
25%
f. What is the chance that a son will be colorblind? (2pts)
25%
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2. The pedigree seen below is for hemophilia. Shaded individuals are hemophiliacs. Determine
the probable genotype of persons 1–15 and use the letter "H". (15pts)

1. XHXh
2. XHY
3. XHXh
4. XhY
5. XHXh or XHXH
6. XhY
7. XHXh
8. XhY
9. XHXh
10.XHXh
11.XHY
12.XhY
13.XhXh
14.XHY
15.XHXh