WorksheetsMendelian Word Problems
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
In cats, coat color for orange tabby is considered dominant over white coat color. What is the probability of orange tabby offspring from parents that are heterozygous for this coat trait?
75%
25%
50%
100%
Black fur is considered dominant over yellow fur in Labrador Retrievers.
What is the probability of black fur in offspring of parents that are heterzygous for the trait?
50%
100%
75%
25%
In humans, curly hair is considered dominant over straight hair. If a heterozygous female mates with a male that is homozygous for straight hair, what is the probability that the offspring will be born with curly hair?
100%
50%
25%
75%
For a person to be left-handed, that is considered to be recessive to the more dominant trait for right-handedness.
What is the probability of an offspring being right-handed with the cross of a male that is homozygous for right handed to a female that is homozygous for left-handed?
100%
50%
25%
75%
In parrots, green feathers is dominant over blue feathers. If a parrot breeder wants to breed only blue parrots, what parental genotypes should they use?
Ggxgg
ggxgg
GGxgg
GgxGg
Albinism is an autosomal recessive condition. Which circle graph shows the genotype probability when an albino female mates with a male that is heterozygous for the albinism trait?
Aa: 50%
aa: 50%
AA: 100%
aa: 0%
Aa: 75%
aa:25%
Aa: 0%
aa: 100%
In cocker spaniels the allele for a black coat color (B) is dominant over the allele for a brown coat color (b).If a heterozygous cocker spaniel is crossed with a heterozygous black cocker spaniel, which of the following genotypic ratios can be expected?
2 BB: 0 Bb: 2 bb
1 BB: 2 Bb: 1 bb
0 BB: 2 Bb: 2 bb
2 BB: 1 Bb: 0 bb
Chickens can have different types of feathers. Frizzled feathers curl toward a chicken’s head. Assume that feather type is determined by a single gene and that the allele for frizzled feathers is dominant over the allele for straight feathers. In a cross between two chickens with straight feathers, what percentage of the offspring can be expected to have straight feathers?
75%
50%
0%
100%
Tomato plants usually have hairy stems. Hairless stems are present in tomato plants that are homozygous recessive for this trait. If the stem characteristics are determined by a single gene, what is the expected outcome of crossing two tomato plants that are heterozygous for hairy stems?
75% hairy stems: 25% hairless stems
100% hairy stems
100% hairless stems
50% hairy stems: 50% hairless stems
When creating a punnet square for crossing a heterozygous dominant mother and a homozygous recessive father for any given trait, which of the following would be true?
Select 2 answers
None of the offspring will have the homozygous dominant genotype
25% of the offspring will be heterozygous
75% will be homozygous recessive for the trait
50% of the offspring will be heterozygous dominant for the trait
None of the offspring will express the genotype of homozygous recessive
In parrots, green feathers is dominant over blue feathers. If a parrot breeder breeds a homozygous for blue feathers to a homozygous for blue feathers, how many of the 6 eggs laid will have blue feathers?
6
3
0
4
In humans, brown eyes are considered dominant over blue eyes. If a male that is homozygous for brown eyes is crossed with a female that has blue eyes, what percentage of offspring will be born with blue eyes?
0
100%
50%
25%
In cats, solid fur color is considered dominant over spotted fur color. If a cat that has spotted fur is crossed with a cat that is heterozygous for fur color, what percentage of the offspring will be born with spotted fur?
100%
0
50%
75%
Dogs can be born with a tail length of various sizes and it is possible that a single gene determines this trait. A dog with a long tail is considered to be the dominant trait over the recessive short tail trait. If two dogs for the heterozygous genotype are crossed, what percentage of offspring will be born with long tails?
75%
50%
25%
100%
