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1. If you are heterozygous for type B blood and you have a child with someone who has type AB blood:
A. What are the chances of having a child with type O blood? __________________________________
B. What are the chances of having a child with type AB blood? _________________________________
C. What are the chances of having a child with type A blood? __________________________________
D. What are the chances of having a child with type B blood? __________________________________
2. Hemophilia is a recessive sex-linked (x-linked) disorder. Suppose a male with normal blood marries a
female who is a carrier for hemophilia.
A. What is the genotype of the male? ___________________________
B. What is the genotype of the female? __________________________
C. What is the chance of a daughter inheriting hemophilia? _______________________
D. What is the chance of a son inheriting hemophilia? ___________________________
E. What is the chance of having a daughter who is also a carrier for hemophilia? _______________________
3. In goats, a fused hoof is dominant (F) to a cloven hoof (f) and a belted coat pattern (B) is dominant to a
solid coat pattern (b). Cross FFBb with FfBb and answer the following questions:
A. What is the probability of having a goat with the genotype of FfBb? _____________________________________
B. What is the phenotype for a goat with the genotype of ffBb? __________________________________________
C. What is the probability of having a goat that has cloven hooves and a belted coat pattern? __________________
D. What would be the genotype(s) for a goat with a cloven hoof and a solid coat? ___________________________
4. In a species of plant, blue flowers are dominant to purple flowers. If two blue-flowered plants produce a
a plant with purple flowers,
next plant having purple flowers? ___________________________________________________________
E. In general, what is the probability of these parent plants having a young plant with purple flowers? __________