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Monohyrid crosses
1. When two plants with red flowers are mated together, the offspring
always are red, but if two purple flowered plants are mated together,
sometimes some of the offspring have red flowers. Which flower colour
is recessive?
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2. In sheep, white (B) is dominant to black (b). Give the F2 phenotypic and
genotypic ratio resulting from the cross of a pure-breeding white ram
with a pure-breeding black ewe.
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3. If you found a white sheep and wanted to determine its genotype, what
colour animal will you cross it to?
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4. Squash may be either white or yellow. However, for a squash to be
white, at least one of its parents must also be white. Which colour is
dominant?
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5. In peas, yellow seed colour is dominant to green. Give the expected
proportion of each colour in the offspring of the following crosses:
a) A heterozygous yellow with a heterozygous yellow
b) A heterozygous yellow with a green
c) A green with a green
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6. If tall (D) is dominant to dwarf (d), give the genotypes of each parent
that produce ¾ tall plants and ¼ dwarf plants among their progeny.
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Sex-linked crosses
7. A normal woman whose father was a haemophiliac has children with a
normal man. What are the chances of haemophilia occurring in their
children?
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8. Another woman with no history of haemophilia in her family has
children with a normal man whose father was a haemophiliac. What are
the chances of haemophilia occurring In their children?
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9. Colurbindness (r) is a sex-linked recessive trait, while normal colour
vision (R) is dominant.

a. If two normal -visioned parents have a colourblind son, what are the
parents genotypes?
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b. What are the chances that their daughter will be colourblind?
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10. In cats, yellow fur colour is due to allele (A) and black is due to allele (B).
These genes are sex-linked. The heterozygous condition results in
tortoiseshell. Use a genetic cross diagram to show F1 genotypes and
phenotypes when a black male is crossed with a tortoiseshell female
Parental phenotype:
Parental genotype:
Gametes:
Female gametes Male gametes

F1 genotypes:
F1 phenotypes:
Multiple Allele Crosses
11. Mallard ducks show a multiple allele pattern of inheritance in which
(MR) produces ‘restricted mallard’ colouring and is dominant over(M) for
‘mallard’ colouring, and both of these are dominant over (m) for ‘dusty
mallard’ colouring. Give the phenotypic ratios expected among offspring
from the following crosses:

a. MR M X MR m----------------------------------------------------------------------------

b. MR M X M m-------------------------------------------------------------------------------