Pedigree Practice

• Not affected Female
• Not affected Male
• Affected Male
• Affected Female

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

• Not Affected Male
• Not Affected Female
• Affected Male
• Affected Female

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What do half colored symbols represent?

• The individual is a carrier (heterozygous).
• The individual expresses the trait.
• The individual has both recessive alleles.
• The individual has both dominant alleles.

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

How many people in this whole pedigree have the trait/disease?

• 2
• 3
• 4
• 6

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Color Blindness is a sex linked disease.  Therefore, it HAS to affect which pair of chromosomes?

• 21
• 23
• 24
• 1-22

What is the mode of inheritance shown here?

• Autosomal Recessive
• Autosomal Dominant
• Sex Linked

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Which of the following combinations of sex chromosomes represent a female?

• XY
• XXY
• XX

How many generations are shown in this pedigree?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

How many kids did the mother and father from the first generation have?

• 2
• 4
• 5
• 6

This pedigree represents the inheritance of hemophilia in this family. How many of the females have the hemophilia trait?

• 8
• 5
• 2
• 3

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2