1. In cabbage butterflies, White wings are dominant to yellow wings.

If a Ww butterfly is crossed
with a ww butterfly, what are the possible genotypes and phenotypes of the offspring and the
percent chance for each?

W w
W Ww ww

w Ww ww
Fill in the table:

Genotype Phenotype Chance

Ww White wings 50%

ww Yellow wings 50%

2. In dogs, there is a hereditary type of deafness caused by a recessive gene. Two dogs who carry the
gene for deafness but have normal hearing are mated. What are the possible genotypes and
phenotypes of their offspring and the percent chance for each?

D d
D DD Dd

d Dd dd

Fill in the table:

Genotype Phenotype Chance

DD Normal hearing 25%

Dd Normal hearing 50%
dd Deafness 25%
3. In guinea pigs, short hair is dominant over long hair. If a short haired SS guinea pig is crossed with
along haired ss guinea pig, what are the possible genotypes and phenotypes of their offspring and
the percent chance for each?

S S
s Ss Ss

s Ss Ss

Fill in the table:

Genotype Phenotype Chance

Ss Short hair 100%

4. Can you curl your tongue up on the sides? Tongue-curling in humans is a dominant genetic trait.
Suppose a man who is Tt for a tongue –curling marries a woman who is also Tt for this trait. What
are the possible genotypes and phenotypes of their children and the percent of chance for each?

T t
T TT Tt

t Tt tt

Fill in the table:

Genotype Phenotype Chance

TT Tongue - curling 25%

Tt Tongue – curling 50%
tt Cannot tongue – curl 25%
5. In guinea pigs, rough coats (with lots of swirly cowlicks) are dominant over smooth coats. If an
RR guinea pig is crossed with a Rr guinea pig, what are the genotypes and phenotypes of the
offspring? What are the chances of each?

R R
R RR RR

r Rr Rr

Fill in the table:

Genotype Phenotype Chance

RR Rough coats 50%

Rr Rough coats 50%
1. Tom and Tina decided they wanted to start a family. Tom knew his grandfather had a sickle-
cell disease. Sickle-cell disease is a recessive disorder that causes blood cells to stiffen and take
on a crescent shape. These blood cells have a difficult time moving through the blood vessels
and can cause health problems. Tina didn’t know of any family members that had it. Still.
Before they got pregnant they both went to the doctor for genetic tests. The doctor found that
even though Tom and Tina were healthy, they both carried the gene for sickle-cell diseases.
Make a Punnett square to determine the probability of Tom and Tina’s child having sickle-cell
disease.

S s
S Ww ww

s Ww ww

Genotype Phenotype Chance

SS Normal 25%
Ss Normal 50%
ss Sickle – cell disease 25%

2. Some cattle are naturally hornless, a condition called “polling”. Polling is dominant over the
more common horned trait. A polled bull is mated with three cows with the ff. offspring:
Cow A (horned) = polled calf
Cow B (horned) = horned calf
Cow C (horned) = horned calf
What are the genotypes of the four parents?
 Cow A
P p
p Pp pp
\
p Pp pp
p
Offspring: Polled Calf

 Cow B
P p
p Pp pp
\
p Pp pp
p
Offspring: Horned Calf
  Cow C
P p
P PP Pp

p Pp pp

Offspring: Horned Calf

3. Short hair is dominant over long hair in guinea pigs. A long-haired male guinea pig and a
heterozygous short-haired female are kept in the same cage and mate numerous times,
ultimately producing 32 total offspring. What is the most likely distribution of short hair and
long hair among their offspring?

H h
h Hh hh

h Hh hh

Genotype Phenotype Chance

Heterozygous short 16 Heterozygous short
Hh 50%
hair hair
hh Long hair 50% 16 Long hair

4. Tay-Sachs disease is due to a homozygous recessive genotype (nn). A bout 4% of the alleles
in a given population are “n”. the means that about 96% of the alleles are “N”. use the
Punnett square below to determine the approximate percentage of each genotype within the
population.

N = 0.96 n = 0.04

N = 0.96 0.9216 0.0384

n = 0.04 0.0384 0.0016

Genotype Chance

NN 92.16%
Nn 7.68%
nn 0.16%