Quarterly Progress Assessment #2
Review Sheet
A. Punnett Squares and Genetics
1. Define the following terms:
Recessive
Dominant
Allele
Homozygous
Heterozygous
Genotype
Phenotype
Practice Problems
2. Tall pea plant are dominant to short pea plants. What
are the chances that two pea plants that are Tt will have
offspring that are short? Write a sentence to explain
how 2 tall plants can have short offspring.
3. Two tall pea plants have some offspring that are
short. Explain how this can happen by using a Punnett
square AND by writing a sentence using the word
dominant OR recessive.
4. A tall plant (Tt) and a short plant (tt) have two sweet
baby plants that are both short. Explain how this can
happen using a Punnett square AND by writing a
sentence using the word allele.
5. A tall pea plant and a short pea plant have some
offspring that are short. What are the genotypes of the
parents?
6. Brown eyes are dominant to blue eyes. A blue eyed
dad (bb) and a brown eyed mom (Bb) have children.
What is the probability that the children will have blue
eyes?
7. What was Gregor Mendels most important
contribution to the study of genetics?
8. How many chromosome do humans have? How many
chromosomes (traits) does a person get from each
parent? Why is it that sometimes a child might
resemble one parent more than the other?
9. Selective Breeding Write a short paragraph
describing what selective breeding is and give some
examples. What is the purpose of selective breeding?
What are the two main types of selective breeding?
Give examples of each.
Incomplete dominance
10. Snapdragons exhibit incomplete dominance
between their red and white flowers. Cross a red
flower and a white flower.
a. Cross a pink snapdragon with another pink snap
dragon.
b. Cross a pink snap dragon with a red snap dragon.
c. Cross a pink snap dragon with a white snap dragon.
11. A man bred some long eared rabbits with short
eared ones and to his amazement all the baby rabbits
had ears of medium length. Dazzle this poor
bewildered man with your knowledge of genetics.
Codominance alleles 12. Coat colors of the Shorthorn breed of cattle represent a classical example of codominant
alleles. Red is governed by the genotype RR. Roan, which is a mixture of red and white, is RW. White is WW. Make the
following crosses:

a. red x white b. roan x roan c. roan x red d. roan x white

13. Yellow coat in guinea pigs is produced by a homozygous genotype YY. Cream color by YW, and white by WW. Make
the following crosses:

a. cream x cream b. cream x white c. yellow x white

14. Compare and contrast sexual and asexual reproduction.

15. Compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis.

16. Photosynthesis:
a. Write the equation here. Now memorize it.

b. Who?

c. What?

d. Where?

e. Why?

17. Cellular Respiration

a. Write the equation here. Now memorize it.

b. Who?

c. What?

d. Where?

e. Why?

18. Compare and contrast Photosynthesis and cellular respiration.

Word to Know!!

Mitosis
Meiosis
Photosynthesis
cellular respiration
nucleus
chloroplasts
mitochondria
asexual reproduction
sexual reproduction
cytokinesis
selective breeding
cross breeding
polygenic inheritance
alleles
incomplete dominance
codominance
heterozygous
homozygous
genotype
phenotype