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Marcelo Pessoa Name _________________________ Date _________

Concept Covered: The Monohybrid Cross 1 Concept Covered: The Monohybrid Cross 1
1. What is a monohybrid cross? ___________________________
a cross between two organisms
1. What is a monohybrid cross? ___________________________


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that have different variations at the genetic locus of intrest
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2. Yellow seed color (A) is dominant to green seed color (a).
2. Yellow seed color (A) is dominant to green seed color (a).
What offspring would you expect from parents that are Aa and
What offspring would you expect from parents that are Aa and
Aa? Give the genotypes and the phenotypes of the possible
Aa? Give the genotypes and the phenotypes of the possible
offspring as well as the probability of each.
offspring as well as the probability of each.




A a

AA (25%) Yellow
A AA Aa (75%)
Aa (50%) Yellow


aa (25%) green (25%)
Aa aa

a







3. Freckles are caused by a dominant allele (F). What offspring
3. Freckles are caused by a dominant allele (F). What offspring
would be expected from parents that are Ff and ff? Give the
would be expected from parents that are Ff and ff? Give the
genotypes and the phenotypes of the possible offspring as well
genotypes and the phenotypes of the possible offspring as well
as the probability of each.
as the probability of each.


F f

F FF Ff Ff (50%) Freekless (50%)

no Freekless
ff (50%)
(50%)
f Ff ff

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