CENTRAL PHILIPPINES STATE UNIVERSITY

Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental

College of Teacher Education

NAME : DREA MAE M. PAT DATE: 01, 10, 22 .; =RATING :

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SUBJECT: GENETICS SECTION: BSED III SCIENCE

PRACTICAL ACTIVITY NO. 3

MONOHYBRID INHERITANCE – COMPLETE DOMINANCE

1. Silky feather in fowl is recessive to that for normal feathers.

a.) If 60 birds were raised from a cross between individuals that were heterozygous for this
gene, how many would be expected to be silky and how many would be normal?

There are 45 normal feathered fowl 15 silky feathered fowl to be expected.

b.) If you had a normal feathered bird, what would be the easiest way to determine
whether it is homozygous or heterozygous?

Test Cross

2. In peas, gray seed color is dominant to white. In the following experiments, parents with
known phenotypes but unknown genotypes produced the listed progeny:

Parents Progeny

Gray White

a. Gray and white 82 78

b. Gray and gray 118 39

c. White and white 0 50

d. Gray and white 74 0

e. Gray and gray 90 0

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Using the letter G for the gray gene and g for white, give the most probable genotype of
each parent. Gg x Gg

1. In crosses b, d and e of Problem 1, indicate how many of the gray progeny produced by
each cross would be expected to produce white progeny when self-fertilized? .

2. A downward pointed frontal hairline (widow’s peak) in human beings is a heritable trait. A
person with widow’s peak always has at least one parent who also has this trait, whereas
persons with a straight frontal hairline may occur in families in which one or even both
parents have widow’s peaks. When both parents have straight frontal hairline, all children
also have straight hairline. Using W and w to symbolize genes for this trait, what is the
genotype of an individual without wi dow’s peak? aa

3. Some individuals have one whorl of hair on the back of the head, whereas others have two.
In the following pedigrees shaded symbols represent one whorl, open symbols two:
AA aa
P1 P2 P3 P4

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
F1

a. Using the first letter of the alphabet, give the probable genotype (from left to right) of:
1 whorl – A 2 Whorl- a
1.) P1 = AA

2.) P2 = aa

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3.) P4 = Aa

4.) F1 7 = aa

5.) F1 8 = Aa

6.) F1 10 = AA

b. What should be the phenotypic ratio of the progeny produced by the marriage of F 1 6 x
F1 8, assuming a large family?

A a

a Aa aa

a Aa aa

50:50 , 50% 1 whirl oh hair and 50% 2 whirl of hair.

4. Assume that eye color in humans is controlled by a single pair of genes of which the effect
of that for brown (B) is dominant over the effect of that for blue (b).

(a.) What is the genotype of a brown –eyed individual who marries a blue-eyed individual
and produces a first offspring that is blue-eyed? Bb

(b.) For the same mating as in (a) what proportions of the two eye colors are
expected among further offspring?

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(c.) What are the expected proportions of the eye colors among the offspring of a mating
between two brown-eyed individuals who each had one parent that was blue-eyed?

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