Punnet Squares

A woman heterozygous for A blood marries a man heterozygous for B blood. What is the probability that they will produce offspring with AB blood?

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

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NGSS.HS-LS4-3

What is the chance of two parents with blood types AB and O producing an offspring with blood type O?

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 100%

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NGSS.HS-LS3-3

Genetic crosses involving a particular type of flower exhibit complete dominance with respect to petal color. Red (R) is dominant to white (r). Using the Punnett square, what is the expected percentage of offspring that will have white flowers from a cross of parent flowers with a genotype of Rr.

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 100%

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NGSS.HS-LS3-3

Red-green color blindness is an X-linked recessive trait. A red-green color-blind woman and a red-green color-blind man have a son. What is the probability that the son is also red-green color-blind?

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 100%

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

Tay-Sachs disease is a lethal, autosomal recessive genetic disorder. If both parents are heterozygous carriers of the disease, what are the chances of them having a child who is also a heterozygous carrier for Tay-Sachs?

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

Biologists have found that a form of deafness is a recessive trait in dogs. If a female dog that is heterozygous for the trait mates with a male dog that is deaf, what percent of their offspring will be deaf?

• 0%

• 50%

• 75%

• 100%

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Phenylketonuria (PKU) is inherited as a recessive condition. A man with PKU marries a woman without any alleles for PKU. What is the probability that their child will inherit PKU?

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 75%

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

In certain species of plants, purple flowers (P) are dominant to white flowers (p). If two heterozygous plants are crossed, what will be the phenotype of the offspring?

• 100% purple flowers
• 100% white flowers
• 75% white flowers, 25% purple flowers
• 25% white flowers, 75% purple flowers

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

Which of the following is a phenotype?

• Aa
• red hair
• heterozygous
• DNA

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Dominant alleles are represented by a:

• Male gene
• lowercase letter
• recessive trait
• capital letter