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Complex Inheritance Review

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 54mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What pattern of inheritance is shown in this image?
a)
Codominance
b)
Incomplete dominance
c)
Polygenic traits
2.

A bubble guppy with a yellow tail has offspring with a bubble guppy with a red tail. The offspring have orange tails. What is this an example of?

a)

Codominance

b)

Incomplete Dominance

c)

Multiple Alleles

d)

Polygenic Triats

3.

___________________________ is the field of science that studies of how traits are passed on, or inherited.

a)

dominant traits

b)

ratio

c)

genetics

4.

What does this Punnett square and the probabilities of the ofspring represent?

a)

incomplete dominance

b)

codominance

5.

This rooster's mother was all black and its father had all white feathers. What type of inheritance explains its appearance?

a)

simple dominant/recessive

b)

epistasis

c)

incomplete dominance

d)

codominance

6.

What term describe the physical expression of a gene that you can see?

a)

phenotype

b)

homologous

7.
Which of the following genotypes belongs in the red box in the Punnett square?
a)
XBXB
b)
XbXb
c)
XbY
d)
XBY
8.

Which genotype do females have?

a)

XX

b)

XY

c)

AA

d)

Aa

9.

This is an example of ___________?

a)

Incomplete dominance

b)

Co-Dominance

c)

Complete dominance

10.

Codominance occurs in calico cats, which allows for the Black and Tan colors to show. What percentage of the offspring will be calico (black and tan spotted)?

a)

25

b)

50

c)

75

d)

100

11.

What is the blood type of a person with the genotype IBi?

a)

type A

b)

type O

c)

type B

12.

A roan cow shows co-dominance in fur color (red and white). What is the phenotype ratio expected if a roan cow and a roan steer mate together?

a)

4/4 Red and White

b)

2/4 Red, 2/4 White

c)

2/4 Red, 2/4 Roan, 0/4 White

d)

1/4 Red, 2/4 Roan, 1/4 White

13.

What do we call the table used to calculate the probability of an offspring's genetic makeup?

a)

Punnett square

b)

Venn diagram

14.

A calico cat shows both the traits for orange fur and black fur. What kind of allele expression is this?

a)

Incomplete Dominance

b)

Co dominance

c)

Complete dominance

15.

What pattern of inheritance is shown in this image?

a)

Codominance

b)

Incomplete dominance

c)

Complete dominance

16.

If hemophilia is an X-linked recessive disorder, what genotype would a female with hemophilia have?

a)

XH XH

b)

XH Xh

c)

Xh Xh

d)

Xh Y

17.

What is the genotype of a person with type A blood, who had a father with type O blood?

a)

OO

b)

AO

18.

If you have type O blood, what is your blood genotype?

a)

Ai

b)

Bi

c)

OO

d)

ii

19.

This is an example of ___________.

a)

Incomplete Dominance

b)

Codominance

c)

Complete dominance

20.

What is the probability that the offspring are homozygous dominant?

a)

0%

b)

50%

c)

75%

d)

100%

21.

If hemophilia is an X-linked recessive disorder, what genotype would a carrier female have?

a)

XH XH

b)

XH Xh

c)

Xh Xh

22.

If a red flower mixed with a white flower to create a pink flower we would call this...

a)

Complete Dominance

b)

Codominance

c)

Incomplete Dominance

d)

Multiple Alleles

23.

What type of inheritance is shown?

a)

simple dominant/recessive

b)

incomplete dominance

c)

multiple alleles

d)

codominance

24.

A red flowered plant (RR) is crossed with a white flowered plant (WW). The gene for petal color in these plants expresses incomplete dominance. What percentage of the offspring will have red (RR) flowers?

a)

0%

b)

25%

c)

50%

d)

100%

25.

Incomplete dominance occurs in cats, which allows them to be Black, White, or gray as shown on this Punnett square. What percentage of the offspring will be black?

a)

25

b)

50

c)

75

d)

100

26.

What type of inheritance is determined by multiple genes and there can be a range of traits?

a)

Codominance

b)

Incomplete dominance

c)

Polygenic traits

27.

A single gene has 3 or more alleles. These are called

a)

multiple genes

b)

multiple alleles

c)

codominance

d)

polygenic traits

28.

Examples include skin color and height (the individual's phenotype exists somewhere along a spectrum)

a)

polygenic inheritance

b)

multiple alleles

c)

linked genes

d)

incomplete dominance

29.
What is NOT a possible genotype for someone with type B blood?
a)
IBIB
b)
IAIB
c)
IB i
30.

In the image above, what is the percentage of the offspring has the possibility of inheriting blood type O?

a)

0%

b)

25%

c)

50%

d)

100%

31.

Which of the following codes for blood type O?

a)

IA IA

b)

IB i

c)

IA IB

d)

ii

32.

What inheritance patterns makes the blood type AB possible?

a)

incomplete dominance

b)

multiple alleles

c)

codominance

d)

total dominance

33.

Why are there so many phenotypes for human blood types (what causes there to be more than just 2 phenotypes)?

a)

multiple alleles

b)

incomplete dominance

c)

total dominance

d)

non dominance

34.

Jim has type AB blood. His dad could be type O.

a)

True

b)

False

35.
What are the blood types of the possible children that a woman (type O) and man (type AB) can have?
a)
O and AB
b)
O and A
c)
O and B
d)
A and B
36.
What percentage of the female offspring will be a carrier for this recessive disease?
a)
0%
b)
50%
c)
100%
d)
25%
37.
Hemophilia is a recessive x-linked disorder.
Which genotype represents a female who is a carrier for hemophilia?
a)
XHXh
b)
XhXh
c)
XHXH
d)
XhY