Genetics worksheet with answers

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1.Easy
♂ Bb♀ BbbBBb

Two Bb parents are crossed. B gives round seeds and is dominant over b, which gives wrinkled seeds. Click the cell of the Punnett square for an offspring with wrinkled seeds.

Bb × Bb
  1. 1B × b
  2. 2B × B
  3. 3b × b
  4. 4b × B
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 is heterozygous (Aa)?

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 tall, wrinkled 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, round seeds?

AaBb × aabb
P =
5.Hard
♂ AaBb♀ AaBbAbabaBABabaBAbAB

Two AaBb parents are crossed. Gene A gives black fur (dominant) or white fur; gene B gives purple flowers (dominant) or white flowers. Click the one cell for an offspring that is shows both white fur and white flowers.

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
AAAa?Aa?aap (A)q (a)p (A)q (a)q² = 0.04f = ?

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

q² = 0.04
f =

Answer key

  1. 1. b × b
  2. 2. P = 0.5
  3. 3. P = 0.125
  4. 4. P = 0.25
  5. 5. ab × ab
  6. 6. f = 0.32

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