Multiple Allele Worksheet paper)

Human Blood Type Fill in the following chart. Blood Type Antigen Present A B AB O A

(Answer these questions on your own

Antibody Present B

Safe to Receive A, O

Unsafe to receive B, AB

1. According to the table, which blood type can be given to anyone? __________________________ 2. According to the table, which blood type is able to accept all of the blood types? ___________________________ Human blood type is controlled by three alleles (A, B, O). O is recessive and A and B are co-dominant. A person must receive two O alleles for them to have type O blood. If a person receives an A allele and a B allele, their blood type is type AB. 3. A biology student is surprised and shocked to learn that although both parents are blood type A, she is blood type 0. Is it possible that this students parents are both the true biological parents? If so, what must the parent genotypes be? (Show the cross) _________________________ ___________ _________ 4. In a paternity case both child and mother are blood type AB. What type will the man have to be to prove he is not the father of this child? Explain your answer. _________________________ 5. Mr. Metcalf, a hospital director calls you in a state of shock. When he has finally calmed down enough to talk coherently, you learn that one of his orderlies came on duty the previous night after spending a few hours with his friends at a local bar, and as a joke proceeded to exchange wrist bands on the four babies in the nursery, all of whom are the same age, resemble wrinkled little prunes, and are indistinguishable. As a first step in unraveling this mess you blood type the parents and babies, with the exception of Mr. and Mrs. Blatz who refuse to do anything until they have talked with their lawyer. The results of the parents' blood tests are:

Mrs. Frink - AB, Mr. Frink - 0 Mrs. Zeeb - B, Mr. Zeeb - B Mrs. Youngblood - O, Mr. Youngblood - 0 Mr. and Mrs. Blatz - not typed Assume that the individuals listed are the true parents, each set of parents having had one of the four babies. Indicate the one family to which each of the following children belongs on the basis of blood type. Explain your reasoning. Baby 1...B blood type: Baby 2...A blood type: Baby 3...AB blood type: Baby 4...O blood type: Coat Color in Labradors In Labrador retrievers coat color is determined by 2 genes that sort independently: melanin production (B for black is dominant to b for brown) melanin deposition (E for deposition is dominant to e for no deposition) Yellow Labrador retrievers may be homozygous dominant, homozygous recessive, or heterozygous for pigment production but are homozygous recessive for melanin deposition. Chocolate Labrador retrievers are homozygous recessive for melanin production but may be homozygous dominant or heterozygous for melanin deposition. Black Labrador retrievers may be homozygous dominant or heterozygous for melanin production and for melanin deposition. 6. Write all possible genotypes for yellow, chocolate, and black Labrador retrievers: Yellow__________ Chocolate__________ Black____________ 7. A male and female chocolate Labrador retriever were mated and had a litter of 12 puppies. Eight of the puppies were yellow. What were the genotypes of the parents? Parent genotypes______________ 8. How many of the other puppies were chocolate and how many were black? Explain your reasoning. Chocolate________________ Black________________