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GENETICS PRACTICE

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Isaiah and Nickie have three children together. If loudness is dominant and both parents are heterozygous dominant for loudness, what percent of the children will be loud?
a)
0%
b)
50%
c)
75%
d)
100%
2.

Whitney has two koalas. One has fluffy ears and one has non-fluffy ears. She breeds them together. They make one baby with fluffy ears. Which trait is dominant?

a)

Fluffy ears is dominant

b)

Non-fluffy ears is dominant

c)

Fluffy and non-fluffy are incompletely dominant

d)

There's not enough information to decide

3.

Cam has a tortie cat. It has splotches of both red and black. The red allele and black allele that this cat has is...

a)

Red is dominant to black

b)

Incompletely dominant

c)

Codominant

d)

Black is dominant to red

4.
Jenna has two pitbulls, both which somehow rival her ferocity. One is chocolate, which is dominant, and the other is cream, which is recessive. These pitbulls have puppies. Half the puppies are chocolate, half are cream. What is the genotype of the  chocolate dog?
a)
Bb
b)
bb
c)
BB
d)
There is not enough information to know
5.

Elodie and Aaron are playing tennis when they accidentally knock a baby bird out of its nest with their tennis ball. If the momma bird is yellow and the dad bird red, what color should the baby bird be if yellow and red are incompletely dominant?

a)

Orange

b)

Yellow

c)

Red

d)

Both red and yellow splotches

6.

Pheonix is studying salamanders. He observers that stripes is dominant to no-stripes in salamanders. Which of the following probabilities is impossible for if a striped salamander was to mate with a no-stripe?

a)

75% no-stripe

25% stripe

b)

100% stripes

c)

50% stripes

50% no stripes

7.

Queen Victoria's son, Phillip, has hemophilia. So she blames her husband for this X-linked disorder that Phillip has. What is wrong with Victoria's logic?

a)

Males get their X from their mom

b)

We don't know for sure if the father had hemophilia

c)

She's right, the father gave Phil the disease

d)

Hemophilia is actually really easy to confuse with albinism, so maybe he has that actually

8.
Cass and Sophia are identical, colorblind twins. Cass only has boys, who are all colorblind. Meanwhile, Sophia has only girls, who are also all colorblind. What must be true about this situation?
a)
Sophia and Cass are actually fraternal twins
b)
The father of Sophia's kids must also be colorblind
c)
The father of Cass' kids must also be colorblind
d)
The fathers for both sets of kids must be colorblind
9.
Brooke and Maude break into a pet store and steal several recessive blue puppies. However, they are soon caught and forced to return the puppies back to their parents. Which of the following genotype pairs could not be the parents of the puppies?
a)
Dd x Dd
b)
Dd x dd
c)
DD x dd
d)
dd x dd
10.
Clara is investigating a murder scene. She tests the blood at the scene and finds that it contains one allele for A-type blood and one allele for B-type blood. If these traits are codominant, who is the murderer?
a)
Ian, with B-type blood
b)
Taqi, with A-type blood
c)
Bobby, with O-type blood
d)
Amy, with AB-type blood
11.
Serena's python has two recessive traits: black diamond spots and slanted eyes. If she breeds it with a python heterozygous for both traits, which genotype is not possible in an offspring?
a)
ddee
b)
DdEe
c)
DDEe
d)
Ddee
12.
Maguire has accidentally killed a fancy tail (Ff) yellow (YY) fish. Which of the following fish cannot be one of this fish's (now traumatized) offspring?
a)
FfYY
b)
Ffyy
c)
ffYy
d)
FFYY
13.
Clarissa is being chased by a male, green eyed (gg) black (BB) bat. If she stopped and introduced it to a lady bat with the genotype GGbb, what would be the only option for the offspring's genotype for this pair?
a)
GgBb
b)
ggbb
c)
GGBB
d)
There actually several possible genotypes
14.
Andrew has found an alcove full of pegasi. He learns about friendship how friendship is magic. Also, he learns that purple wings is dominant to teal wings. If a purple (Pp) pegasus mates with a teal (pp) pegasus, what will the offspring look like?
a)
50% purple
50% teal
b)
100% purple
c)
75% purple
25% teal
d)
25% purple
50% purplish teal
25% teal
15.

Celena and Haylee are studying fruit flies in a laboratory. They notices that only male fruit flies have red eyes, with females only having it rarely. What kind of trait is this, probably?

a)

X-linked

b)

Y-linked

c)

Normal autosomal

d)

Q-linked

16.

Kaleb and Zach have decided to dedicate themselves to raising llamas. They move to Peru together. Gray (G) llama fur is worth a lot more money than white (g) llama fur, but all they have is gray llamas. Which genotypes should they bred so they can get some white llamas?

a)

Gg x Gg

b)

GG x Gg

c)

GG x GG

d)

There's no way to get white llamas from gray llamas

17.

Angelina discovers a rare black-and-red spider crawling on Haleigh Jo. If black and red are codominant on this spider, which of the following would be the best way to write this genotype, especially if we're also dealing with other spider genes too?

a)

CBCR

b)

Bb

c)

BBRR

d)

Rr

18.
Aaron has red hair, but the rest of his family does not. What is a good explanation as to why?
a)
Hair color is polygenic, which makes it very hard to predict
b)
Hair color goes black>brown>
blonde>red in humans
c)
Aaron's hair is actually genetically blonde
d)
His grandfather must have definitely had red hair.
19.

Kavi has accidentally stabbed Stanley (whoops!). Stanley can only receive blood from O-type blood. Who should he accept blood from?

a)

McKenna, who's IAIB

b)

Kathryn, who's IAi

c)

Jolie, who's ii

d)

He could get blood from Kathryn or Jolie

20.
Jack (blood type AB) is, unfortunately, not Ty's father (blood type O). How do we know this just based on blood types?
a)
Jack doesn't have a "i" allele to give
b)
Jack doesn't have a "IA" allele to give
c)
Ty's mother would have had to be IAIBi
d)
JACK IS ACTUALLY TY'S FATHER!! :)
21.
Green Arrow is a pretty cool superhero. He accidentally leaves some blood behind, which is found to be blood type B. Which of these four people (all found nearby) is Green Arrow?
a)
Phong, IAIB
b)
Hunter, IBIB
c)
Kamran, IBi
d)
Either Hunter or Kamran could be Green Arrow
22.
Ilsa is being chased by a horde of angry birds that keep trying to stab her. She notices that some of the birds have a pointy beak and some have a curvy beak. Which beak type is dominant, based on this?
a)
Pointy beak is dominant
b)
Curvy beak is dominant
c)
They're both recessive
d)
There's not enough information to determine
23.

If sleepiness is a Mendelian style dominant trait and Justin is sleepy, yet one of his parents was not sleepy, what would be Justin's genotype?

a)

Heterozygous

b)

Homozygous dominant for sleepy

c)

Homozygous recessive for sleepy

d)

Not enough information to determine

24.

Tim's brand new penguin is heterozygous yet expresses only its yellow eye allele. What is his penguin's phenotype?

a)

Ee

b)

ee

c)

Yellow eyes

d)

EE

25.

Ainsley shows her friends her new pet, a scorpion. The scorpion has a recessive trait - black spots. Which of the following is the genotype for her scorpion's black spot gene?

a)

Black spots

b)

No black spots

c)

Bb

d)

bb

26.
Brianna is sassy while Conlin is polite. Brianna has a theory that people with a heterozygous blood type are sassy, while homozygous blood types are polite. Which of the following would support her hypothesis?
a)
Brianna is type AB, Conlin is type O
b)
Brianna is type O, Conlin is type AB
c)
Brianna is type O, Conlin is type B
d)
Brianna is type B, Conlin is type AB
27.
Sarah has wavy, blonde hair. However, when she tries to find out if wavy hair is dominant or recessive, she discovers that hair texture "polygenic." What does that mean?
a)
It is both dominant and recessive
b)
It's affected by multiple genes
c)
It doesn't actually mean anything
d)
It's codominant with the other hair alleles
28.

Marit owns a black cat and Anya owns a red cat. These two cats bred together and produce five red male cats. If the black & red alleles are X-linked, what cat was the mother?

a)

Anya's red cat

b)

Marit's black cat

c)

X-linked genes don't require a mother

d)

Both, as they both contribute an X to the sons

29.

If the allele for red feet and the allele for blue feet are incompletely dominant in blue footed boobies, what would be the probability ratio for two purple boobies mating?

a)

25% red / 50% purple / 25% blue

b)

100% purple

c)

50% red / 50% blue

d)

33% red / 33% purple / 33% blue

e)

12.5% red / 75% purple / 12.5% blue

30.

Assume being evil is a recessive X-linked disorder. What can we assume about Scar's (an evil lion) children? Select all that are true.

a)

The boys cannot inherit evil from Scar

b)

All of the girls will at least be carriers for evil

c)

All of the girls will be evil

d)

50% of the male offspring will be evil

31.

Let's say you're looking at a pedigree tracking a genetic disease across several generations. What can clue you in that this pedigree is showing an X-linked recessive disorder? (Select all that apply)

a)

Way more guys have the disease than girls

b)

There are no male carriers

c)

There are no female carriers

d)

All females have three copies of the allele

32.

Tasting PTC is dominant to not tasting PTC. Two tasters have babies. One of their eight offspring cannot taste PTC. What can we assume about the couple?

a)

Both parents must be heterozygous.

b)

Both parents must be homozygous dominant.

c)

Both parents must be homozygous recessive.

d)

One parent is heterozygous and the other is homozygous.

33.

Full color is dominant to dilute in cats. A test cross is performed to find out if a full color cat is DD or Dd. If two out of the three offspring from the test cross are dilute, what can we conclude?

a)

The full color cat must be Dd

b)

The full color cat must be DD

c)

The full color cat must be dd

d)

We cannot make any conclusions

34.

My cat Piper is a Siamese cat. Siamese, or "pointing," is caused by an allele found on the colorpointing (C) gene. What is my cat's phenotype?

a)

cc

b)

cScS

c)

Siamese

d)

Piper

35.

A nurse is trying to figure out which baby in the nursery belongs to a blood type-O mother (ii) whose husband has blood-type A (IAi)?

a)

Baby 1 with genotype of IAi

b)

Baby 2 with genotype of ii

c)

Baby 3 with genotype of IAIA

d)

Uh oh... both baby 1 and baby 2 could be their's.

36.

A blood type AB (IAIB) person has children with a blood type O (ii) person. What phenotypes are possible in the children?

a)

Only type O

b)

Type AB, A, B, and O

c)

Type AB and O

d)

Type A and B

e)

Type A, B, and O