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Genetics Prelab - Due at the beginning of lab
1. Contrast the outcome of mitosis with meiosis. Use this pattern:
When mitotic cell division is complete, the result is ______, whereas when meiosis is complete,
____…
2. How many genes for each trait are present in a gamete as compared with a diploid cell?
Why?
3. If purple color is dominant over white color in flowers, how would you designate the genotype
for a flower that is
homozygous dominant?
homozygous recessive?
Heterozygous?
4. In lab we will be dealing with inherited traits that are located on the X chromosome. These
traits are referred to as X-linked or sex-linked. What X-linked traits will we work with in this lab?
5. There are 3 alleles for blood type: A, B, and O. How many alleles would one person have?