Genetics worksheet with answers

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1.Easy
♂ Aa♀ AaAaAa

Two Aa parents are crossed. A gives yellow seeds and is dominant over a, which gives green seeds. Click the cell for an offspring that has yellow seeds and is homozygous.

Aa × Aa
  1. 1A × A
  2. 2A × a
  3. 3a × A
  4. 4a × a
2.Easy
Aa ♀AA ♂AaAA????

In pea plants, purple flowers (A) are dominant over white (a). A plant with genotype Aa is crossed with a plant with genotype AA. What is the probability P that an offspring has purple flowers?

Aa × AA
P =
3.Medium
AaBb ♀AaBb ♂ABAbaBabABAbaBab????????????????

Tall (A) is dominant over short (a), and round seeds (B) over wrinkled (b). The genes are on different chromosomes. For the cross AaBb × AaBb, what is the probability P that an offspring is short, round seeds?

AaBb × AaBb
P =
4.Medium
AaBb ♀Aabb ♂ABAbaBabAbAbabab????????????????

Tall (A) is dominant over short (a), and round seeds (B) over wrinkled (b). The genes are on different chromosomes. For the cross AaBb × Aabb, what is the probability P that an offspring is tall, wrinkled seeds?

AaBb × Aabb
P =
5.Hard
♂ AaBb♀ AaBbABaBabAbAbabABaB

Two AaBb parents are crossed. Gene A gives tall plants (dominant) or short plants; gene B gives yellow seeds (dominant) or green seeds. Click the one cell for an offspring that is shows both short plants and green seeds.

AaBb × AaBb
  1. 1Ab × AB
  2. 2Ab × aB
  3. 3Ab × ab
  4. 4Ab × Ab
  5. 5ab × AB
  6. 6ab × aB
  7. 7ab × ab
  8. 8ab × Ab
  9. 9AB × AB
  10. 10AB × aB
  11. 11AB × ab
  12. 12AB × Ab
  13. 13aB × AB
  14. 14aB × aB
  15. 15aB × ab
  16. 16aB × Ab
6.Hard
AA?AaAaaap (A)q (a)p (A)q (a)q² = 0.16N = 5000

In a population of 5000 in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium, 16% show a recessive trait. How many individuals N are expected to be homozygous dominant?

N = 5000q² = 0.16
N =

Answer key

  1. 1. A × A
  2. 2. P = 1
  3. 3. P = 0.1875
  4. 4. P = 0.375
  5. 5. ab × ab
  6. 6. N = 1800

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