Pedigree Practice #1
Answer the questions about the pedigree chart below.
What is the pattern of inheritance depicted?
__________________________
WHY are the other patterns ruled out?
Write the genotypes for all individuals --use "A" to represent a dominant
allele & "a" to represent a recessive allele, if one allele is unknown, use a "?"
to represent that allele.
Generation #1 Generation #2 Generation #3 -
Pedigree Practice #2
In the pedigree chart below, the filled symbols represent individuals who
express a given trait - circles are females, squares are males. If each line
represents one generation What is the pattern of inheritance depicted? ________________
Why isn't it the other two patterns of inheritance?
Write the genotypes for all individuals --use "A" to represent a dominant
allele & "a" to represent a recessive allele, if one allele is unknown, use a "?"
to represent that allele.
Generation #1 –
Generation #2 –
Generation #3 -