Mendelian and Non-Mendelian Genetics

A model of the genetic control of coat color in rabbits is shown.

Which Punnett square represents a cross that would produce albino offspring?

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Hemophilia also known as bleeder's disease is an X-linked trait. A mother who is heterozygous for hemophilia married a man without hemophilia. Examine the cross and identify the offspring with normal phenotype. Select all that apply.

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Codominant and incompletely dominant traits have three phenotypes instead of two. How many alleles (versions of the gene) are involved?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

In snapdragons, flower color is an incompletely dominant trait. Which genotype will lead to a third blended phenotype?

• Homozygous dominant

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous recessive

In a certain breed of cattle, both red and white hairs show up together. This is an example of which type of inheritance pattern?

• incomplete dominance

• codominance

• multiple alleles

• polygenic inheritance

What is name for traits that are controlled by many genes such as height and skin color?

• complete dominance

• incomplete dominance

• co dominance

• polygenic

• multiple alleles

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Who is known as the "father of genetics"?

• Charles Darwin

• Karl Ernst von Baer

• Gregor Mendel

• Francis Franklin

Alleles (example: H or h) are alternative forms of a gene. How many alleles does a baby guinea pig inherit from their mother?

• 1

• 2

• 23

• whichever one is dominant

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A HETEROZYGOUS individual would have the genotype:

• Hh

• hh

• HH

• Hi

In humans, blue eyes are a recessive trait. What genotype would a blue eyed child have?

• BB

• Bb

• bb

• None of the above, brown eyes are dominant.

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