Monohybrid Cross Problems

1. Hornless (H) in cattle is dominant over horned (h). A homozygous hornless bull is mated with a homozygous horned cow. What will be the genotype and phenotype of the first generation?

2. In tomatoes, red fruit (R) is dominant over yellow fruit (r). A plant that is homozygous for red fruit is crossed with a plant that has yellow fruit. What would be the genotypes and 3 phenotypes of the P1 and F1 generations?

3. Brown eyes in humans are dominant to blue eyes. A browneyed man, whose mother was blue-eyed, marries a brown-eyed woman whose father had blue eyes. What is the probability that this couple will have a blue-eyed child? 4. Black wool of sheep is due to a recessive allele b and white wool to its dominant allele B. A white buck (male) is crossed to a white ewe (female), both animals carrying the allele for black. They produce a white buck lamb which is then backcrossed to the female parent. What is the probability of the backcross offspring being black? 5. A heterozygous red flowered plant (Rr) is crossed with a homozygous white plant (rr). What would be genotypes and phenotypes of the offspring?

Dihybrid Problems 1. In some-dogs, barking (B) when trailing is due to a dominant allele; others do not bark (b). Also, erect ears (E) are dominant to drooping ears (e). By crossing a heterozygous erect-eared barker with a droop-eared silent trailer, what kind of pups would you expect? 2. A solid colored, short-haired female rabbit (ssLL) is mated to a spotted, longhaired male (SSll). How many will be expected to be spotted with long hair? How many solid colored with short hair? 3. In some flowers, a true-breeding red flowered strain gives all pink flowers when crossed with a white-flowered strain: RR(red) x rr(white) to Rr(pink). If flower position is inherited as it is in peas, what will be the ratios of genotypes and phenotypes of the generation resulting from the following cross: Axial-red (true breeding) x terminal-white? What will be the ratios in the F2 generation? 4. 5.

Multiple Allele Problems 1. A man with type O blood marries a woman with Type AB blood. Among their children, what proportion would you expect to have blood types like one or the other of these parents? What proportion would have expected to have blood types different from both parents? 2. In a family, one parent has Type A blood, the other has Type B. They have four children. One has Type A, one has Type B, one has Type AB, and the last has Type O. What are the genotypes of all six people in this family? 3. A man with type AB blood marries a woman with type O blood, but whose father was type A blood. What would be the genotype is expected to their first child to have? 4. A man whose father is type B and whose mother is type A has a blood type A. He marries a type A woman, whose parents had the same blood types as his parents. What are the genotypes of the man and woman and what is the probability that their first child will be blood type A? 5. Suppose a newborn baby was accidentally mixed up in the hospital. In an effort to determine the parents of the baby, the blood types of the baby and two sets of parents were determined. Baby 1 had type O Mrs. Brown had type B Mr. Brown had type AB Mrs. Smith had type B Mr. Smith had type B. To which parents does baby #1 belong? Why?