Genetics Review Name ___________________________

Complete Dominance
Dragon Genetics: Show Punnett squares and answer the questions

In dragons, the allele for fire breathing is dominant. Dragons can be fire breathers, or non-fire breathers.

1. If a heterozygous fire-breathing dragon is crossed with one that does not breathe fire, how
many offspring will be fire breathers?

2. If two heterozygous dragons are crossed, how many offspring would you expect to NOT be fire-
breathers?

3. Also in dragons, wings are a dominant trait. If you crossed two wingless dragons, how many of their
offspring would you expect to have wings?

4. Two winged dragons produce an offspring that does not have wings. What are the genotypes
of the parents?

5. If a purebred winged dragon is crossed with a purebred wingless dragon, how many of their offspring
will be winged and what is their genotype?

Part II.

Dragon Genetics: Codominance and Incomplete Dominance

Incomplete dominance: Neither allele is completely dominant over the other allele- there will be
blending between the two traits.

Codominance is a condition when both alleles are dominant and both are expressed at the same
time.

6. Dragon Eyes can be yellow, blue, or the intermediate green color. Is this codominance or
incomplete dominance? Explain.
7. What is the chance that two green eyed dragons will have offspring with yellow eyes?

8. a. Dragon spines can be red, blue, or a mix or red and blue. Is this codominance or incomplete?

b. A red spined dragon and a blue spined dragon have offspring. What color are the babies' spines?

9. A red spined dragon and a mixed spined dragon are crossed. How many of their babies will have red
spines?

Multiple Alleles- more than two alleles in the population for a genetic trait.

Alleles A and B are codominant and allele O is recessive.

The Case of the Long-Lost Son

Mr. Cash died and left all his money to his two children. A young man claiming to be a lost third child
sued for his share of the estate. The judge ordered blood tests for all family members and for the young
man. Mr. Cash’s blood type was AB. His wife had type A blood.

10. Using a Punnett square, diagram the offspring that could be produced if Mrs. Cash had genotype AA
and Mr. Cash had genotype AB.

11. Using another Punnett square diagram the possible offspring if Mrs. Cash had genotype AO and Mr.
Cash had genotype AB.
12. Which phenotypes could result among the offspring of this marriage? _______________________

** The man claiming to be the long-lost son then went for his blood test. He had type O blood.

13. What is the genotype of the young man claiming to be Mr. Cash’s long lost son?_________________

14. Could this young man have been Mr. Cash’s son? _______

Suppose two newborn babies were accidentally mixed up in a hospital, something that rarely happens.
In an effort to determine the parents of each baby, the blood types of the parents and the babies were
determined.

Baby 1-type A Mrs. Davisson-type B Mrs. Lantz-type O

Baby 2-type O Mr. Davisson-type O Mr. Lantz-type AB

15. Which baby belongs to Mr. & Mrs. Davisson? ___________________

16. Which baby belongs to Mr. And Mrs. Lantz? _____________________

Dragon Genetics Multiple Alleles

Dragons have three main alleles for colors: black, red, and green (similar to blood type).
Black and red are codominent to each other, creating a black and red dragon, but both are dominant
over green.

17. What would be the possible genotypes and phenotypes of the children of a black dragon whose
mother was green, and a mixed black and red dragon.

Sex- Linked Inheritance- these genes are located on the sex (usually the X) chromosome.

Dragon Genetics Sex - Linked Traits

The presence of ears are a rare trait in the dragon community. Ears are a sex linked, recessive trait.

18. A female dragon is a carrier for the ears trait. How many of her offspring will have ears if she mates
with a normal no-eared male?

19. A male dragon with ears is crossed with a female dragon who is a carrier. How many of their

offspring will have ears?

20. Colour blindness is a sex-linked trait. When a Color-Blind man marries a woman with normal vision
what are the Genotypes and Phenotypes of their possible children?

What percentage of their boys will be expected to be colorblind? _____

21. Hemophilia is a sex-linked trait. If a hemophiliac man marries a normal woman who had a
hemophiliac father, what Genotypes and Phenotype can occur in the children? What percentage of their
girls will be expected to be hemophiliacs? _____

22. Muscular dystrophy is a sex linked trait. If a man with muscular dystrophy marries a woman with
muscular dystrophy what Genotypes and Phenotypes can occur in their children? What percentage of
their boys will be expected to have muscular dystrophy? _____

Genetics Vocabulary Practice

a. The two alleles for a trait are different __________ 1. P generation

b. Gene not expressed when the dominant gene for the trait is present 2. F1 generation
____ 3. F2 generation
c. Chart that predicts the outcome of a genetic cross________ 4. Alleles
d. This gene is expressed whenever it is present _________ 5. Homozygous (Pure)
e. First two individuals crossed in a breeding experiment ____________ 6. Heterozygous (Hybrid)
f. Physical appearance of a trait ______________ 7. Codominance
g. Offspring of the F1 generation _____________ 8. Incomplete dominance
h. When the two alleles of a particular gene are the same ___________ 9. Multiple alleles
i. The different possible variations of a gene ____________ 10. Phenotype
j. Offspring of a Parental generation ____________ 11. Dominant
k. The genetic makeup of an individual (the two alleles present) _______ 12. Punnett square
l. Genes with three or more alleles ____________ 13. X-linked trait
m. When an event displays a trait that is intermediate between the two 14. Genotype
parents _____________ 15. Recessive
n. Trait whose allele is located on the X chromosomes ____________
o. Two dominant alleles are expressed at the same time ____________