Chapter 10 Study Guide

1. Define crossing over.

2. Crossing over is good because it results in

____________________________________.

3. What is represented by the letters along the outer edges of the Punnett
Square?

4. What is represented by the letter combinations inside the Punnett Square?

5. Using letters the letters T and t, show what each of the following would look
like:
a. homozygous dominant ____ c. homozygous recessive ____
b. heterozygous d. hybrid ____

6. State Mendel’s law of independent assortment.

7. State Mendel’s law of segregation.

8. Define the following:

a. genetics

b. heredity

c. alleles

9. What is your diploid chromosome number? What is your haploid

chromosome number?

10. What is the female gamete? What is the male gamete?

11. What is pollination?

12. If your father is homozygous dominant for brown eyes, and your mother is
homozygous recessive for blue eyes, what would your phenotype be? What
is your genotype?
13. Label the processes occurring at A, B, and C.

A B C

A. ____________________ B. _______________________ C. ________________________

14. In order for an offspring to be diagnosed with a mutation at birth, where

must the mutation come from (be specific)?

15. If a person acquired a mutation, what specifically would be altered as a

result of this mutation?

16. What may be the cause of a mutation? (list 2)

17. In the space below, draw a pair of homologous chromosomes that have
heterozygous alleles.

18. Draw a diagram demonstrating crossing over.

19. Illustrate how nondisjunction can occur.

20. Be able to do genetic word problems like we did with the Sponge Bob
worksheets.