Genetics: Complex Inheritance

A bubble guppy with a yellow tail has offspring with a bubble guppy with a red tail. The offspring have orange tails. What is this an example of?

• Codominance

• Incomplete Dominance

• Multiple Alleles

• Polygenic Triats

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When red cattle are crossed with white cattle the offspring are roan (a mixture of red and white). What is this called?

• Codominance

• Incomplete dominance

• Multiple Alleles

• Polygenic

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There are many different alleles for fur color in cats. What is this an example of?

• Codominance

• Incomplete Dominance

• Multiple Alleles

• Polygenic Traits

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If mom has type AB blood and dad has type B blood, can the baby have type O blood?

• Yes

• No

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In the winter, the fur of this arctic fox will turn white. Is this due to genetics, the environment, or both?

• genetics

• environment

• both

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Two parents are carriers of a genetic disease. This means they are ____.

• homozygous

• homozygous dominant

• homozygous recessive

• heterozygous

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Hemophilia is a sex-linked trait. Are males or females more likely to exhibit this trait?

• Males

• Females

• Females cannot have hemophilia.

• Males cannot have hemophilia.

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A man is homozygous dominant for a trait that is autosomal. He has two sons and a daughter. Do all three children exhibit the trait.

• No, only sons exhibit the trait.

• No, on the daughter exhibits the trait.

• No, none of his children exhibit the trait.

• Yes, all three children exhibit the trait.

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Many genes impact human skin color. This means skin color is ______.

• codominant

• incompletely dominant

• polygenic

• has multiple alleles

If a summer squash has a dominant Y allele it will always produce white squash even if it has other genes that code for white or yellow squash. What is this an example of?

• recessivness

• dominance

• incomplete dominance

• epistasis