Genetics Problems

Bellringers and Practice

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• In your current genetics class, you learn
that dark eyes are dominant to light eyes.
At dinner one night, you notice that both
your parents have brown eyes. You have
blue eyes. How can you display a
recessive trait if both your parents display
a dominant trait? (Use a Punnett square
to verify or refute this possibility.)
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• You are an ER doctor working late. A
young male has just been brought in that
was in a car accident. He has lost a great
deal of blood and continues to lose blood.
The situation is critical. The patient needs
a blood transfusion immediately, but his
blood type is unknown. What do you do
and why?
 Genetics Problem
• In birds, green feathers (G) are dominant
to blue (g) and short beaks (S) are
dominant to long (s). What would be the
expected offspring of a cross between a
heterozygous green, short-beaked bird
and a blue, long-beaked bird? (This
problem is continued on the next slide.)
 Genetics Problem
• Suppose the actual numbers of offspring in the previous
cross were:

• 450 green, short

• 447 blue, long
• 55 green, long
• 49 blue, short

• Based on these results, what do you conclude about

these genes?
• Complete a Chi Square analysis to confirm your
assumption.
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• A normal woman whose father had hemophilia
marries a normal man. What is the probability
that they will have a daughter with hemophilia?
A son with hemophilia?
• Determine their genotypes first, (look at your hint
about the woman’s father), then set up the
Punnett square. Show your work. Check with a
partner.
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• In birds, long beaks (L) are dominant to short (l) and
green feathers (G) are dominant to blue (g). In a cross
between a heterozygous long-beaked, green bird and a
short-beaked blue bird, the following offspring are
observed:
• 24 long, green
• 30 long, blue
• 26 short, green
• 27 short, blue
• Perform a chi-square test to verify the null hypothesis
that genes are on different chromosomes.