Heredity Punnett Squares and Pedigrees

This pedigree shows how left handedness has been passed. Can Mike and Molly have a left handed child?

• No, their child can't be left handed.

• There is not enough information to tell.

• Yes, they can have a left handed child.

• They can have a left or right handed child.

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Which statement about this Punnett square is NOT true?

• There is a 50% of offspring with green pods.

• The offspring have a 50% chance of inheriting a dominant gene.

• The parents are heterozygous.

• Each parent carries at least one recessive gene.

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Which statement about this Punnett square is true?

• All of the offspring will have brown eyes.

• 1 parent has brown eyes and the other has blue.

• Both parents have blue eyes.

• They have a 25% chance of offspring with brown eyes.

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Which statement about this Punnett square is NOT true?

• parent is heterozygous, the other is homozygous.

• The offspring have a 50% chance of being homozygous.

• The offspring have a 50% chance of having blue eyes.

• 50% of the offspring be homozygous for brown eyes.

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What allele combination should go in the missing box?

• AA

• Aa

• aa

• none of these

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Finish the empty box on this Punnett square.

c

rR

RR

Rr

rr

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

In a species of plants, being tall (T) is dominant to being short.

A plant that is ​ (a)   would be tall.

A plant that is Tt would be ​ (b)   .

A plant that is tt would be ​ (c)   .​

• TT

• tall

• short

In a species of frogs, pink tongues (P) is dominant to gray tongues (g). A frog with the genotype PP would have a ​ (a)   tongue. A frog with the genotype ​ (b)   would also have a pink tongue. A frog with the genotype ​ (c)   would have a gray tongue.​

• pink

• Pp

• pp

• gray

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

An allele whose trait shows up when the allele is present is (a)  

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Homozygous

Which statement about this Punnett square is true?

• Both parents have yellow pods.

• All of the offspring will inherit at least 1 yellow pod gene.

• The parents are both heterozygous.

• Yellow pods is a dominant trait.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2