Genetics worksheet with answers

Two Rr parents are crossed. R gives tall plants and is dominant over r, which gives short plants. Click the cell for an offspring that has tall plants and is homozygous.

1. 1R × R
2. 2R × r
3. 3r × R
4. 4r × r

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 white flowers?

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?

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is X-linked recessive (allele d). A carrier mother, X^DX^d, has children with an unaffected father, X^DY. The mother's gametes run down the side. Click the cell for a carrier daughter.

1. 1X^d × Y
2. 2X^d × X^D
3. 3X^D × Y
4. 4X^D × X^D

A recessive condition affects 1 in 10000 of a population in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium. What fraction f of the population are carriers (heterozygous)?

A recessive condition affects 4% of a population in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium. What fraction f of the population are carriers (heterozygous)?