Name:Janine VC.

Romano Period:________ Date:___________________

CODOMINANT/INCOMPLETE DOMINANCE PRACTICE WORKSHEET

3. What happens if you breed a patchwork fish with a fish that only has Blue Scales?
a. What is the probability of having fish with red scales? _0%
b. What is the probability of having fish with patchwork scales? _50%
B B
Genotypes:
2 BB
2 Bb B
Genotypic Ratio: 2:2 BB BB
Phenotypes:
2 blue-scaled fish b
2 patchwork fish
Bb Bb
Phenotypic Ratio: 2:2

4. Two patchwork fish are crossed. What is the probability that they will have patchwork fish? __50__%
B b
Genotypes:
1 BB
2 Bb B
1 bb
Genotypic Ratio: 1:2:1
BB Bb
Phenotypes: b
1 blue-scaled fish
2 patchwork fish Bb bb
1 red-scaled fish
Phenotypic Ratio: 1:2:1

5. Two short-tailed (Manx) cats are bred together. They produce three kittens with long tails, five short tails, and
two without any tails. From these results, how do you think tail length in these cats are inherited? Show the
genotypes for both the parents and the offspring to support your answer.

The Manx cat exhibits incomplete dominance, which means that kittens can be born with full-length tails, short-length
tails, or no tails at all. The parent's genotype will be Tt, and the kittens will be TT (long tail) Tt (short tail) tt ( no tail).
These tails can be seen in the same single litter. Because of this variation, these cats are classified according to the length
of their tail. The kitten's phenotype can be short-legged, long-tailed, or lacking a tail. In simple words, this situation
shows incomplete dominance since there are a range of trails that can be made.
Incomplete Dominance Problems
6. In snapdragons, flower color is controlled by incomplete dominance. The two alleles are red (R) and white (r).
The heterozygous genotype is expressed as pink.
a. What is the phenotype of a plant with the genotype RR? Red Snapdragons
b. What is the phenotype of a plant with the genotype Rr? Pink Snapdragons
c. What is the phenotype of a plant with the genotype rr? White Snapdragons

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 R r
Genotypes:
1 RR
2 Rr R
1 rr
Genotypic Ratio: 1:2:1

Phenotypes: r
1 red snapdragon
2 pink snapdragon
Bb Bb
1 white snapdragon
Phenotypic Ratio: 1:2:1 RR Rr
Bb Bb
7. A pink-flowered plant is crossed with a white-flowered plant. What is the
probability of producing a pink-flowered plant? 50% Rr rr
R
r
Genotypes:
2 Rr r
2 rr
Genotypic Ratio: 2:2

Phenotypes: r
2 pink snapdragon
2 white snapdragon
Phenotypic Ratio: 2:2

8. What cross will produce the most pink-flowered plants? Show a Punnett Rr rr
square to support your answer and explain.
 The cross that will produce the most pink-flowered plants is that of red-
flower plants (RR) and white-flowered plants (rr), because it has a 100% Rr rr
chance of becoming a pink plant if crossed.
R
R
Genotypes:
4 Rr
Genotypic Ratio: 4 R

Phenotypes:
4 pink snapdragons
Phenotypic Ratio: 4 r

9. In Andalusian fowls, black individuals (BB) and white individuals (bb) are
homozygous. A homozygous black bird is crossed with a homozygous white Rr Rr
bird. The offspring are all bluishgray. Show the cross as well as the genotypes and
phenotypes of the parents and offspring.
B
B
Rr Rr
Genotypes:

2
4 Bb
Genotypic Ratio: 4
b
Phenotypes:
4 bluish-gray bird
Phenotypic Ratio: 4
b

10. What results if a black individual is crossed with a bluish-gray individual? (SHOW YOUR WORK)

B B
Genotypes:
2 BB
2 Bb B
Genotypic Ratio: 2:2
BB BB

Phenotypes:
2 black individual b Bb Bb
2 bluish-gray individual
Phenotypic Ratio: 2:2

Codominance (Blood types)

Human blood types are determined by genes that follow the CODOMINANCE pattern of inheritance. There are two
dominant alleles (IA and IB) and one recessive allele (i).

Blood Type Genotype Can donate blood to: Can receive blood from:
(Phenotype)

O ii A,B,AB and O O
(universal donor)

AB IAIB AB A,B,AB and O

(universal receiver)
IAIA
A or I i
A
AB, A O,A

B IBIB or IBi AB,B O,B

1. Write the genotype for each person based on the description:

a. Homozygous for the “B” allele ______________

b. Heterozygous for the “A” allele ______________
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 c. Type O ______________
d. Type “A” and had a type “O” parent ______________
e. Type “AB” _______________
f. Blood can be donated to anybody ______________
g. Can only get blood from a type “O” donor ______________

2. Pretend that Drake is homozygous for the type B allele, and Nicki Minaj is type “O.” What are all the possible
blood types of their baby? (show your work)

Genotypes: IB i
2I
B
i
2 ii
Genotypic Ratio: 2:2 i

Phenotypes:
2 Type “B” i
2 Type “O”
Phenotypic Ratio: 2:2

3. Draw a Punnett square showing all the possible blood types for the offspring produced by a type “O” mother and an a
Type “AB” father
IA
IB
Genotypes: IBi ii
2I i A

2I i
B
i
Genotypic Ratio: 2:2 I Bi ii

Phenotypes: i
2 Type “A”
2 Type “B”
Phenotypic Ratio: 2:2

3. Mrs. Clink is type “A” and Mr. Clink is type “O.” They have three children named Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
Mark is type “O,” Matthew is type “A,” and Luke is type “AB.” Based on this information: SHOW WORK TO
PROVE YOUR ANSWERS!
a. Mr. Clink must have the genotype IAIA or IAi
b. Mrs. Clink must have the genotype ii because ___________ has blood type IAi I Bi
______
c. Luke cannot be the child of these parents because neither parent has the allele
IB IAi I Bi
Genotypes: IA
i
2I
A
i I Ai ii
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IAi Ii
2 ii
Genotypic Ratio: 2:2 i

Phenotypes:
2 Type “A” i
2 Type “O”
Phenotypic Ratio: 2:2

4. Two parents think their baby was switched at the hospital. Its 1968, so DNA fingerprinting technology does not
exist yet. The mother has blood type “O,” the father has blood type
“AB,” and the baby has blood type “B.”
a. Mother’s genotype: ii
b. Father’s genotype: IAIB
c. Baby’s genotype: IA or IB
d. Punnett square showing all possible genotypes for children produced by this couple
e. Was the baby switched? The baby was not switched because the punnett square displaying all
possible genotypes for children born to this couple revealed 50% Type "A" and 50% Type "B"

Genotypes: IA IB
2I i A

2I i
B
i I Ai ii
Genotypic Ratio: 2:2

Phenotypes: i
IAi Ii
2 Type “A”
2 Type “O”
Phenotypic Ratio: 2:2

5. Two other parents think their baby was switched at the hospital. The mother has blood type
“A,” the father has blood type “B,” and the baby has blood type “AB.”
a. Mother’s genotype: IAIA or IAi
b. Father’s genotype: IBIB or IBi
c. Baby’s genotype: IAIB
d. Punnett square that shows the baby’s genotype as a possibility:
e. Was the baby switched? The baby was not switched the punnett square that shows the baby’s
genotype revealed 100% Type “AB”
IA IA
Genotypes:
4 IAIB
Genotypic Ratio: 4 IB IAIB IAIB

Phenotypes:
4 Type “AB” IB IAIB IAIB
Phenotypic Ratio: 4
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information in this table, which man could not be

the father of the baby? Justify your answer with a Punnett square.

Name Blood
Type
Mother Type A
Baby Type B
Sammy Type O
the
player
George Type
According to the information on the the AB table, Sammy the
player, the waiter, and the cable guy sleeze cannot be the baby's
father. While George revealed that he has a 50% chance of
being the father of the baby. The Type A
waiter
The Type B
Sammy, the player cable the waiter
the cable guy guy

100% Type A 100% Type A 100% Type AB

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 George the sleeze
Genotypes: IA
2I i A

2I i
B

Genotypic Ratio: 2:2

Phenotypes:
2 Type “A”
2 Type “B”

7.Based on the information in this table, which man could not be the father of the baby? Justify your answer with a
Punnett square.

Name Blood
Type
Mother Type
O
Baby Type
AB
Bartender Type
O
Guy at the Type
club AB
Cabdriver Type
A
Flight Type
attendant B

According to the information in the table, the baby's father cannot be the bartender, guy at the club, cab
driver, or flight attendant. We can also conclude that the "mother" is not the biological mother of the child
because a Type O mother cannot bear a Type AB child.
Bartender Guy at the club

100% Type O 50% Type A

, 50% Type B

Cab Driver Flight Attendant

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7. Explain why blood type data cannot prove who the father of a baby is, and can only prove who the father is not.

Blood type data cannot prove who the father of a baby is, but can only prove who the father is not. It is
because blood type is not an individual characteristic, it cannot be used to prove paternity, but it can
provide unequivocal proof that a male is not the father of a specific child. Because red cell antigens are
inherited as dominant traits, a child cannot have a blood group antigen that one or both parents do not
have.