GENETIC PROBLEMS

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GENETICPROBLEMS
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Question 1

• How many different kinds of gametes could the
  following individuals produce?
• 1. aaBb
• 2. CCDdee
• 3. AABbCcDD
• 4. MmNnOoPpQq
• 5. UUVVWWXXYYZz

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Question 1

• Remember the formula 2n
• Where n of heterozygous
• 1. aaBb 2
• 2. CCDdee 2
• 3. AABbCcDD 4
• 4. MmNnOoPpQq 32
• 5. UUVVWWXXYYZz 2

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Question 2

• In dogs, wire-haired is due to a dominant gene
  (W), smooth-haired is due to its recessive allele
  (w).
• WW, Ww wire haired
• ww smooth haired

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Question 2A

• If a homozygous wire-haired dog is mated with a
  smooth-haired dog, what type of offspring could
  be produced.
• W W
• w
• w

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Question 2A

• W W
• w Ww Ww
• fg F1
  generation
• w Ww Ww all heterozygous

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Question 2B

• What type(s) of offspring could be produced in
  the F2 generation?
• Must breed the F1 generation to get the F2.
• Results of F1 Cross Ww x Ww

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Question 2B

• W w
• W WW Ww F2 generation
• w Ww ww
• genotype 121 ratio
• phenotype 31 ratio

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Question 2C

• Two wire-haired dogs are mated. Among the
  offspring of their first litter is a
  smooth-haired pup.
• If these, two wire-haired dogs mate again, what
  are the chances that they will produce another
  smooth-haired pup?
• What are the chances that the pup will
  wire-haired pup?

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Question 2C

• W w
• W WW Ww F2 generation
• w Ww ww
• - 1/4 or 25 chance for smooth-haired
• - 3/4 or 75 chance for wire-haired

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Question 2D

• A wire-haired male is mated with a smooth-haired
  female. The mother of the wire-haired male was
  smooth-haired.
• What are the phenotypes and genotypes of the pups
  they could produce?
• Show the results of crossing Ww x ww

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Question 2D

• W w
• w Ww ww
• w Ww ww
• phenotypes 11 ratio
• genotypes 11 ratio

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Question 3

• In snapdragons, red flower (R) color is
  incompletely dominant over white flower (r)
  color.
• The heterozygous (Rr) plants have pink flowers.
• RR - red flowers
• Rr - pink flowers
• rr - white flowers

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Question 3A

• If a red-flowered plant is crossed with a
  white-flowered plant, what are the genotypes and
  phenotypes of the plants F1 generation?
• RR x rr

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Question 3A

• R R
• r Rr Rr F1 generation
• r Rr Rr
• phenotypes 100 pink genotypes 100
  heterozygous

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Question 3B

• What genotypes and phenotypes will be produced in
  the F2 generation?
• Rr x Rr

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Question 3B

• R r
• R RR Rr F2 generation
• r Rr rr
• phenotypes 121 ratio
• genotypes 121 ratio

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Question 3C

• What kinds of offspring can be produced if a
  red-flowered plant is crossed with a
  pink-flowered plant?
• RR x Rr

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Question 3C

• R R
• R RR RR
• r Rr Rr
• 50 red flowered
• 50 pink flowered

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Question 3D

• What kind of offspring is/are produced if a
  pink-flowered plant is crossed with a
  white-flowered plant?
• Rr x rr

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Question 3D

• R r
• r Rr rr
• r Rr rr
• 50 white flowered
• 50 pink flowered

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Question 4

• In humans, colorblindness (cc) is a recessive
  sex-linked trait.
• Remember XX - female
• XY - male

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Question 4A

• Two normal people have a colorblind son.
• What are the genotypes of the parents?
• XCX_? x XCY
• What are the genotypes and phenotypes possible
  among their other children?

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Question 4A

• XC Y ? parents
• XC XCXC XCY
• Xc XCXc XcY
• 50 female (one normal, one a carrier)
• 50 male (one normal, one colorblind)

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Question 4B

• A couple has a colorblind daughter.
• What are the possible genotypes and phenotypes of
  the parents and the daughter?

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Question 4B

• Xc Y
• XC XCXc XCY
• Xc XcXc XcY
• parents XcY and XCXc or XcXc
• father colorblind
• mother carrier or colorblind
• daughter XcXc - colorblind

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Question 5

• In humans, the presence of freckles is due to a
  dominant gene (F) and the non-freckled condition
  is due to its recessive allele (f).
• Dimpled cheeks (D) are dominant to non-dimpled
  cheeks (d).

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Question 5A

• Two persons with freckles and dimpled cheeks have
  two children one has freckles but no dimples
  and one has dimples but no freckles.
• What are the genotypes of the parents? Parents F
  __D__ x F__D__
• Children F__dd x ffD__

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Question 5B

• What are the possible phenotypes and genotypes of
  the children that they could produce?
• Cross FfDd x FfDd
• This is a dihybrid cross

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Question 5B

• Possible gametes for both FD Fd fD fd
• FD Fd fD fd
• FD FFDD FFDd FfDD FfDd
• Fd FFDd FFdd FfDd Ffdd
• fD FfDD FfDd ffDD ffDd
• fd FfDd Ffdd ffDd ffdd

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Question 5B

• Phenotype Freckles/Dimples 9
• Freckles/no dimples 3
• no freckles/Dimples 3
• no freckles/no dimples 1
• Phenotypic ratio will always been 9331 for
  all F1 dihybrid crosses.

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Question 5B

• Genotypic ratio FFDD - 1
• FFDd - 2
• FFdd - 1
• FfDD - 2
• FfDd - 4
• Ffdd - 2
• ffDD - 1
• ffDd - 2
• ffdd - 1

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Question 5C

• What are the chances that they would have a child
  whom lacks both freckles and dimples?
• This child will have a genotype of ffdd
• Answer 1/16

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Question 5D

• A person with freckles and dimples whose mother
  lacked both freckles and dimples marries a person
  with freckles but not dimples whose father did
  not have freckles or dimples.
• Cross FfDd x Ffdd
• Possible gametes
• FD Fd fD fd x Fd fd

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Question 5D

• What are the chances that they would have a child
  whom lacks both freckles and dimples?
• FD Fd fD fd
• Fd FFDd FFdd FfDd Ffdd
• fd FfDd Ffdd ffDd ffdd
• Answer 1/8

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Question 6

• Sixteen percent of the human population is known
  to be able to wiggle their ears.
• This trait is determined to be a recessive gene.
• These is a population genetics question.
• Use the following equation 1 p2 2pq q2

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Question 6A

• What of the population is homozygous dominant for
  this trait?
• q2 16 or .16 ?q2 ?.16
• q .4
• then use 1 p q
• 1 p .4
• 1- .4 p
• p .6
• Now use p2 for answer .62 .36 or 36

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Question 6B

• What of the population is heterozygous for this
  trait?
• We know that q .4 and p .6
• Now use 2pq for answer 2(.6)(.4) .48 or 48

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Question 7

• In dogs, the inheritance of hair color involves a
  gene B for black hair and gene b for brown hair
  b.
• A dominant C is also involved. It must be
  present for the color to be synthesized.
• If this gene is not present, a blond condition
  results.
• BB, Bb - black hair CC, Cc - color
• bb - brown hair cc - blond

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Question 7A

• A brown haired male, whose father was a blond, is
  mated with a black haired female, whose mother
  was brown haired and her father was blond.
• Male bbCc (gametes bC bc)
• Female BbCc (gametes BC Bc bC bc)
• What is the expected ratios of their offspring?

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Question 7A

• BC Bc bC bc
• bC BbCC BbCc bbCC bbCc
• bc BbCc Bbcc bbCc bbcc
• Offspring ratios
• Black 3/8
• Brown 3/8
• Blond 2/8 or 1/4

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Question 8

• Henry Anonymous, a film star, was involved in a
  paternity case. The woman bringing suit had two
  children, on whose blood type was A and the other
  whose blood type was B.
• Her blood type was O, the same as Henrys!
• The judge in the case awarded damages to the
  woman damages to the woman, saying that Henry had
  to be the father of at least one of the children.

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Question 8A

• Obviously, the judge should be sentenced to
  Biology. For Henry to have been the father of
  both children, his blood type would have had to
  be what?
• IA IB ? Answer
• i IAi IBi
• i IAi IBi