Activity Sheet

Module 2

Name:___________________________ Grade and Section:__________Date:______Score:____

Activity 1
Phenotypes and Genotypes in Incomplete Dominance
Objectives:
 Explain the incomplete dominance pattern of inheritance.
 Illustrate by means of Punnett square a cross involving incomplete dominance pattern of
inheritance.
Materials:
Activity sheets
Manila paper
Marker pen
Procedure:
1. Read the given problem:
In four o'clock plants, R is the allele for red color and W is allele for white color.
Two pink four o'clock flower plants were crossed.
Show the possible outcome of the cross between two pink four o'clock flower
plants by using the Punnett square.
 2. Now, another cross was made involving a red four o'clock flower plant and a pink four
o'clock flower plant.
3. Using the Punnett square again, show the possible outcome.
4. Show your Punnett square for problems 1 and 2 by writing it on a manila paper.
5. Present and discuss your answers.

Guide Questions:
Q 1. How many types of gametes will each parent produce in problem no. 1? In problem
no. 2?

Q 2. What is the phenotype of a heterozygous four o'clock flower?

Q3. What are the possible phenotypes of the offspring from the cross of the parental
plants in problem no. 1? What about in problem no. 2?

Q4. What are the possible genotypes of the offspring from the cross of the parental plants
in problem no. 1? How about in problem no. 2?
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Activity 2
Mystery Bull

Objectives:
 List the genotypes of the bull and cow in the given problem
 Diagram and complete a Punnett square
 Give phenotypic percentages of the offspring
Materials: (by group)
marker pen
manila paper
Procedure:
1. Read the given problem:
Mang Marcelino owns purebred red cows. In his farm he noticed that after a typhoon several
months ago, all of the fences that separate his cattle from his neighbor's cattle were destroyed.
During the time that the fences were down, three bulls, one from each neighbor, mingled with his
cows. For a while, he thought that none of the bulls found his cows, but over the months, he
noticed that all of his cows are pregnant. He suspected that one of the bulls is the father. Which
bull is it? Help Mang Marcelino look for the father by solving the given problem.

2. Determine the possible traits of the calves if:

 a red (RR) bull is mated with a red (RR) cow 1
 a red (RR) bull is mated with a white (WW) cow 2
 a roan (RW) is mated with a red (RR) cow 3
3. Illustrate your answers using a Punnett square.
4. Write your answers on the manila paper.
5. Present and discuss your answers.
Guide Questions:
Q1. Will you be able to trace the father of the calves? What are the possible phenotypes of the
calves for each cow?

Q2. Do you think you will make Mang Marcelino happy about the result of your investigation?
How are you going to explain it to him?

Q3. How would you apply what you have learned to improve the breeds of livestock in your
area?

Q4. What possible suggestions can you give to animal breeders in your area?
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Activity 3:
What’s Your Blood Type?
Objective:
 infer the unknown phenotypes of individuals on the basis of the known phenotypes of
their family members
Materials:
Paper
Pencil
Procedure:
1. Given the blood types of the mother and the child, identify the possible blood types of the
father.
Mother’s Blood Type Father’s Blood Type Child’s Blood Type
A A
B AB
AB B
O O

2. Show the possible alleles that can be found in each offspring and write the blood type for
each offspring.
Possible alleles from Father
A B O
Possible alleles A
from Mother B
O

3. Use the table to answer the following questions and list all possible blood types.
Guide Questions:
Q1. What blood type (or types) can be found in an offspring if a mother has type A blood and the
father has type B blood?

Q2. What blood type (or types) can be found in an offspring if a mother has type AB blood and
the father has type A blood?

Q3. What blood type (or types) can be found in an offspring if a mother has type O blood and the
father has type B blood?
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Activity 4:
Boy or Girl?
Objectives:
 Discuss how sex in humans is determined
Materials:
Activity sheets
Pen
Paper
Procedure:
1. Draw a Punnet square which shows the inheritance of the sex chromosomes. Represent
the female sex chromosomes with XX and the male sex chromosomes XY.

Guide Questions:
Q1. What will be the sex of a child produced when an egg is fertilized by a sperm that has a Y
chromosome?
Q2. What type of sperm must fertilize an egg to result in a female child?

Q3. Based on this Punnett Square, what percent of children would you expect to be male?

Q4. Which sex chromosome is present in both male and female?

Q5. Infer which sex chromosomes determine a person's sex.

Q6. What are the other factors that may influence the expression of human sexuality?
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Activity 5:
When Gender Matters
Objective:
 Solve problems related to sex-linked traits
Materials:
Activity sheets
Procedure:
1. Read the given problem:
A. Color-blindness 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: X= normal vision X C = color blindness
2. Illustrate using a Punnett square the probability of having children who will have normal
vision and children who will be color-blind.

Guide Questions:
Q1. What is the genotype of the male?
Q2. What is the genotype of the female?

Q3. What is the chance that the child will be color-blind?

Q4. What is the chance that a daughter will be color blind?

Q5. What is the chance that a son will be color-blind?

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Activity 6:
DNA Modelling
Objectives:
 Identify the components of a DNA molecule
 Construct a model of a molecule DNA
Materials:
Cutouts of basic subunits of DNA
Crayons
Scissors
Tape or Glue
Procedure:
1. Color and cut out all of the units needed to make the nucleotides from the handout
provided on page 55. Color code phosphate (brown), deoxyribose sugar (black) and
nitrogeneous bases; Adenine = yellow, Guanine = green, Thymine = blue, Cytosine = red.
2. Using the small squares and stars as guide, line up the phosphate and sugars. Attach the
bases to the sugar using the circle as guide following the sequence to form a row from top
to bottom.
Thymine
Adenine
Cytosine
Guanine
Adenine
Cytosine
Let this arrangement represent the left half of the DNA molecule.
Guide Questions:
Q1. What are the common parts of a nucleotide?

Q2. What is the one part of a nucleotide that differs among the other different nucleotides?

Q3. List the different kinds of nitrogen bases.