BIO 5 - ch 11 quiz
A man with AB blood type marries a heterozygous woman with blood type A. They have children. What percentage of their offspring would have blood type O? (Draw a Punnett square to help you figure this out.)
0%
Hair texture is an example of incomplete dominance. A person who is homozygous dominant HH has curly hair and they mate with a person who has straight hair (homozygous recessive hh). What percentage of their offspring will have curly hair? (Draw a Punnett square to help you figure this out.)
0%
Hair texture is an example of incomplete dominance. A person who is homozygous dominant HH has curly hair and they mate with a person who has straight hair (homozygous recessive hh). What percentage of their offspring will have straight hair? (Draw a Punnett square to help you figure this out.)
0%
Hair texture is an example of incomplete dominance. A person who is homozygous dominant HH has curly hair and they mate with a person who has straight hair (homozygous recessive hh). What percentage of their offspring will have wavy hair? (Draw a Punnett square to help you figure this out.)
100%
Humans have how many autosomes?
22 pairs
A person with the AB blood type expresses which markers on their red blood cell surface?
A and B
A person with the O blood type recognizes which of the following blood types as foreign?
A and B
Why can you say that males determine the sex of their children?
Males will either contribute an X or a Y chromosome, whereas females will always contribute an X chromosome.
You are home sick with the flu and, while flipping channels, you are riveted by a talk show. The show is searching for the real father of a woman's child. None of the men admit paternity, but she insists that one of them must be the father. As the host reveals the results of the paternity test, he mentions that the results were based on STR analysis from the Y chromosome. He displays the following chart. Who does he reveal is the father?
Potential father 3
If red flower color (R) is incompletely dominant to white flower color (r), then what is the genotype of pink flowers?
Rr
A person with the AB blood type recognizes which of the following blood types as foreign?
They do not recognize any blood types as foreig
The term autosome refers to
all chromosomes except X and Y
ABO blood type inheritance is an example of
codominance
The letters for blood types represent
different shapes of red blood cells
Investigators at a crime scene have isolated DNA from a Y chromosome and have analyzed it for its STRs. They have a prime suspect, but he is not cooperating. However, several of his relatives are willing to help by donating DNA samples. Which relative will have the most similar Y chromosome?
his father's father
Hair texture is a result of
incomplete dominance
All of the following are true of color blindness (which is an X-linked recessive trait), EXCEPT
it can be passed from a color-blind father to his son
Up to 40% of human height can be attributed to environmental rather than genetic factors; thus, we call height inheritance
multifactorial
Which of the following types of inheritance can be directly affected by the environment?
multifactorial
It is simpler to use DNA to identify the father for a son than for a daughter because
the X chromosome may recombine during meiosis while the Y is passed intact
