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Heredity- Complex Inheritance

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 38mins

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Class
Date
1.

Select all of the following that are examples of complex inheritance.

a)

Incomplete Dominance

b)

Law of Dominance

c)

Codominance

d)

Multiple Allele

e)

Sex-Linked Traits

2.

Which type of inheritance pattern is where neither allele is dominant over the other and they blend together to have a mixed coloring?

a)

Incomplete Dominance

b)

Co-dominance

c)

Multiple Allele

d)

Sex-linked

3.

Which type of inheritance is being described? A red flower and white flower are crossed and all of their offspring are pink.

a)

Incomplete Dominance

b)

Co Dominance

c)

Multiple Allele

d)

Sex-linked

4.

In humans a large nosed woman is crossed with a small nose man. Their first child has a medium nose. What is the chance their next child will have a medium nose?

a)

0%

b)

25%

c)

50%

d)

75%

e)

100%

5.

In carnations red and white flowers make pink flowers. If a red and pink flower are crossed what is phenotype ratios of the offspring.

a)

1 RR : 2 RR' : 1 R'R'

b)

2 RR : 2 RR'

c)

1 red : 2 pink : 1 white

d)

2 Red : 2 pink

6.

Which type of inheritance is where both traits are dominant and they both fully express as the phenotype?

a)

Incomplete Dominance

b)

Co Dominance

c)

Multiple Allele

d)

Polygenic Traits

7.

Select the type of inheritance being described. A black horse is crossed with a white horse and the offspring come out with black spots and white hair (appaloosa).

a)

Incomplete Dominance

b)

Co Dominance

c)

Multiple Allele

d)

Polygenic Traits

8.

In humans sickle-cell anemia results from a combination of a normal gene and an abnormal gene. Cross a normal person with one that has sickle-cell anemia. What is the percent chance that their children will have sickle-cell anemia?

a)

0%

b)

25%

c)

50%

d)

75%

e)

100%

9.

In chickens, black feathers are co-dominant to white feathers. What would the genotype ratios be if two speckled chickens have offspring?

a)

1 BW : 2 BB : 1 WW

b)

1 BB : 2 BW : 1 WW

c)

2 WW : 1 BB : 1 WW

d)

2 BB : 2 BW : 0 WW

10.

Select all the types of inheritance patterns that blood types would be.

a)

Incomplete Dominance

b)

Law of Dominance

c)

Codominance

d)

Multiple Allele

11.

Which blood type genotype only shows in the homozygous recessive state?

a)

AA

b)

BB

c)

OO

d)

AB

12.

Select all the following blood types that are considered heterozygous?

a)

AO

b)

AA

c)

BB

d)

BO

e)

AB

13.

What is the rarest blood type?

a)

BB

b)

AA

c)

AB

d)

OO

14.

A mother with Type O blood marries a man who is heterozygous for Type B blood. What is the percent chance of them having a child with type O blood?

a)

0%

b)

25%

c)

50%

d)

75%

e)

100%

15.

A guy who is homozygous for type A blood has a child with a woman with type B blood. Their child has type O blood and he thinks that it is not his child. Could the child be his?

a)

No

b)

Yes

16.

Parents with AB and heterozygous for A blood are planning to have children. What potential blood types would their children have? (select all that apply)

a)

AA

b)

AO

c)

BB

d)

BO

e)

AB

17.

Which type of inheritance pattern is when there are two or more alleles for one gene?

a)

multiple allele

b)

Polygenic Trait

c)

Incomplete Dominance

d)

Linked genes

18.

What type of inheritance is where there are two or more genes that code for a trait?

a)

Multiple Allele

b)

polygenic traits

c)

linked genes

19.

What are genes that are physically located on the same chromosome and typically inherited together?

a)

Polygenic Traits

b)

Multiple Allele

c)

Linked genes

d)

Genotypes

20.

What is the only way for linked genes not to be inherited together?

a)

If they independently assort away from each other

b)

during synapsis

c)

if they swap during crossing over

d)

if nondysjunction occurs

21.

What are traits that are found on the X chromosome called?

a)

Multiple Allele

b)

Polygenic Traits

c)

Sex-linked Traits

d)

Autosomes

22.

If a mother is a carrier for a sex-linked disorder can she pass the trait on to her offspring?

a)

yes

b)

no

23.

What is a person that is not affected or a carrier of a sex-linked trait called?

a)

Normal

b)

Affected

c)

Carrier

d)

A person

24.

Why do males tend to be more affected by sex linked traits than females?

a)

Males only have one X chromosome so if they inherit the disorder they will show it.

b)

Males are carriers and therefore not affected.

c)

Males have a Y chromosome that overshadows the X chromosome.

d)

Females are immune to all sex-link disorders.

25.

Which sex chromosomes does a female have?

a)

XX

b)

XY

c)

YY

26.

Which sex chromosomes does a male have?

a)

XX

b)

XY

c)

YY

27.

Which sex chromosome does a father pass on to his sons?

a)

X

b)

Y

28.

In Labrador retrievers some puppies have pink noses and some have black. Most dogs that have black fur have black noses. Which inheritance pattern is this an example of?

a)

Multiple Allele

b)

Epistasis

c)

Linked Genes

d)

Sex-linked traits

29.

Why can't men be carriers of sex-linked traits?

a)

Because they only inherit one X

b)

Because the Y is always dominant

c)

Because they never inherit sex-linked traits

30.

Drag the following trait from the scenario to the correct genotype:

A red flower is crossed with a white flower and the offspring are pink.

a)

FF

1.

Red

b)

F'F'

2.

White

c)

FF'

3.

Pink

31.

Drag the following trait from the scenario to the correct genotype:

Sickle Cell anemia is inherited when you inherit a normal gene and an abnormal gene.

a)

NN

1.

Normal

b)

AA

2.

Abnormal

c)

NA

3.

Sickle Cell

32.

Drag the sex-linked genotype to the correct phenotype:

Females: Normal ​ ​ (a)   Carrier ​ (b)   Affected ​ (c)  

Male: Normal​ (d)   Affected ​ ​ (e)  

Choose from the below words
XHXH
XHXh
XhXh
XHY
XhY
33.

Which blood types can donate to type AB blood?

a)

AB

b)

A

c)

B

d)

O