Chapter10StudyGuide PatternsofInheritance
1.Definelocus,andgene.
2.WhatwereMendel’s“truebreeding“plants?
3.Definedominantandrecessivealleles.Doesdominantmeanmoreprevalent?Whatis
thenameforanallelethatismoreprevalent?
4.Individualgenes(let’ssaytongue-rolling)havehowmanyalleles?
5.Distinguishbetweendominantandrecessive;heterozygousandhomozygous;phenotype
andgenotype;wild-typeandmutant.
6.KnowhowtosetupaPunnettsquareforasinglegene.
7.IsthediseaseCysticFibrosiscausedbyasetofhomozygouschromosomes?Arethey
dominantorrecessive?
8.KnowhowtousetheProductRule.Whatdoesitdescribe?
9.Howdoesthelawofindependentassortmentreflecttheeventsofmeiosis?
10.OfthepeatraitsthatMendelstudied,wereanyofthemonthesamechromosome?
WhatiftheyHADBEEN?
11.Whatistheprobabilityofacrossoveroccurringbetweentwolinkedgenes?
12.Whatisincompletedominance?Giveanexample.
13.Whatiscodominance?Giveanexample.
14.Whatispleiotropy?Giveanexample.
15.Howdoincompletedominanceandcodominanceincreasethenumberofphenotypes?
16.KnowhowtosetupPunnettsquareforsex-linkedalleles.
17.Reviewthepedigrees,andknowhowtoreadone.Istheboxshowninapedigreethatof
amaleorfemale?
18.Explainthelogicofplantingnon-BtcropbufferstripsaroundfieldsplantedwithBt
crops.(Bt-Bacillusthuringensis)
19.SimpleGeneticsPractice#B5F708Thiswebsitehaspracticeproblemsifyou
havetroublewithPunnettsquares.