Punnett Squares

In pea plants, the tall allele is dominant to the short allele. What key would demonstrate this?

• Tall = T
  Short = S
• Tall = T
  Short = t
• Tall = t
  Short = T
• Tall = TT
  Short = tt

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

A heterozygous long-tusked elephant is crossed with a homozygous recessive short-tusked elephant. What is the probability of the offspring having short tusks?

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

A heterozygous long-tusked elephant is crossed with a homozygous recessive short-tusked elephant. What is the probability of the offspring having short tusks?

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

What is the probability of a purple-horned unicorn if a heterozygous pink-horned unicorn is crossed with a heterozygous pink-horned unicorn?

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

NGSS.HS-LS4-3

Georgette wants to breed her pet phoenixes, but she isn't sure if the babies will burst into blue flames or red flames. Her documents show that her female phoenix is homozygous dominant for red flames, while her male phoenix is homozygous recessive for blue flames. What color flames will the babies have?

• Red
• Blue
• Purple
• 50% Red, 50% Blue

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Leonardo bet his friend Olivet that two heterozygous green-eyed sea monsters could not have a recessive blue-eyed baby sea monster. Olivet said they can have a blue-eyed sea monster.
Who wins the bet?

• Leonardo
• Olivet
• Both
• Neither

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A brown-furred ewok has 12 babies with a black-furred ewok. 9 ewok babies have black fur, while 3 ewok babies have brown fur. What are the probable genotypes of the parents?

• BB and bb
• BB and Bb
• Bb and Bb
• Bb and bb

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Jabba the Hutt has finally decided to settle down and have a family. He has undergone genetic testing and learned that he is heterozygous for Hutt Fungal Syndrome, which is caused by recessive alleles. He is worried that his children might suffer from this syndrome. His Hutt mate has undergone genetic testing and discovered she is homozygous dominant for the syndrome. Should Jabba be worried?

• Yes
• No

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A Jawa notices that his beloved pet desert rat, who has brown fur, just had several rat babies, some of which had white fur and some which had brown fur. Brown fur is the dominant trait. This means his rat must have what genotype?

• Homozygous Dominant
• Heterozygous
• Homozygous Recessive

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Identify the homozygous dominant genotype:

• FF
• Ff
• ff