Genetics worksheet with answers

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1.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 is heterozygous (Aa)?

Aa × aa
P =
2.Easy
♂ Bb♀ BbBbBb

Two Bb parents are crossed. B gives purple flowers and is dominant over b, which gives white flowers. Click the cell for an offspring that has purple flowers and is homozygous.

Bb × Bb
  1. 1B × B
  2. 2B × b
  3. 3b × B
  4. 4b × b
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 short, wrinkled seeds?

AaBb × aaBb
P =
5.Hard
♂ AaBb♀ AaBbAbabaBABABAbaBab

Two AaBb parents are crossed. Gene A gives purple flowers (dominant) or white flowers; gene B gives round seeds (dominant) or wrinkled seeds. Click the one cell for an offspring that is shows both white flowers and wrinkled 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 = 0.0025N = 500

In a population of 500 in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium, 1 in 400 show a recessive trait. How many individuals N are expected to be homozygous dominant?

N = 500q² = 0.0025
N =

Answer key

  1. 1. P = 0.5
  2. 2. B × B
  3. 3. P = 0.1875
  4. 4. P = 0.125
  5. 5. ab × ab
  6. 6. N = 451.3

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