WorksheetsComplex Inheritance
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 44mins
Cross a black fowl with a white fowl. What is the phenotype ratio?
Which chromosome contains more genes?
The X chromosome
The Y chromosome
They are homologous, so they contain the same amount of genes.
Males can be heterozygous for sex-linked traits.
True
False
How many recessive genes does a carrier female have for colorblindness?
1
2
0
Colorblindness is a sex-linked recessive trait. A colorblind woman marries a male with normal color vision. What is the percent chance of them having a color blind son?
0%
25%
50%
75%
Muscular dystrophy is a sex-linked recessive disorder. A man with muscular dystrophy marries a woman who doesn’t have this disease. Half of their daughters and half of their sons develop this disease. What is the genotype of the mother?
XNXN
XNXn
Xn
XN
A X-linked gene in fruit flies controls the patterns of the wings. XB has a barred pattern and Xb doesn’t have bars. A male with barred wings is mated to a non-barred female. What would be the genotype(s) of their female offspring?
XBXB
XbXb
XBXb
XBb
The different forms of a gene are called
traits
pollinators
alleles
hybrids
The physical appearance of an organisms is its
Genotype
Phenotype
characteristic
Heterozygous
Examples include skin color and height (the individual's phenotype exists somewhere along a spectrum)
polygenic inheritance
multiple alleles
linked genes
incomplete dominance
Who was the scientist that studied pea plants to determine heredity?
Rosalind Franklin
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Gregor Mendel
James Watson
A trait that is located on the X chromosome is called
Multiple alleles
Codominance
Polygenic Inheritance
X-linked traits
