Name​ _____________________________​Date​ _______________ ​Period​ ________
Genetics Practice Problems
1. For each genotype below, indicate whether it is heterozygous (He) or homozygous (Ho)
AA_____
Ee_____
Ii_____
Mm_____
Pp_____
Bb_____
ff_____
Jj_____
nn_____
LL_____
Cc_____
Gg_____
kk_____
oo_____
HH_____
2. For each of the ​genotypes​ below determine what ​phenotypes​ would be possible.
Purple​ flowers are dominant to ​white​ flowers
Brown​ eyes are dominant to ​blue ​eyes
Pp_____________________________
Bb_________________________
pp_____________________________
bb_________________________
Round seeds are dominant to wrinkled seeds
Bobtails in cats are recessive
RR_____________________________
TT_________________________
Rr_____________________________
Tt_________________________
rr_____________________________
tt_________________________
PP_____________________________
BB_________________________
3. For each ​phenotype​ below, list the possible​ genotypes​ (remember to use the letter of the dominant trait)
Straight hair is dominant to curly
Pointed heads are dominant to round heads
__________ Straight
__________ Pointed
__________ Straight
__________ Pointed
__________ Curly
__________ Round
4. Set up the Punnett squares for each of the crosses listed below. ​Round seeds ​are
dominant to ​wrinkled seeds​.
Rr x rr
What percentage of the offspring will be round?_______
RR x rr
What percentage of the offspring will be round?_______
RR x Rr
What percentage of the offspring will be round?_______
Rr x Rr
What percentage of the offspring will be round?______
​Practice with Crosses. Show all work!
5. A TT (tall) plant is crossed with a tt (short plant). What percentage of the offspring will be tall? ___________
6. A Tt plant is crossed with a Tt plant. What percentage of the offspring will be short? ______
7. A heterozygous round seeded plant (Rr) is crossed with a homozygous round seeded plant (RR). What percentage
of the offspring will be homozygous (RR)? __________
8. A homozygous round seeded plant is crossed with a homozygous wrinkled seeded plant. What are the genotypes of
the parents? _________ x ________. What percentage of the offspring will also be homozygous? ___________
9. In pea plants purple flowers are dominant to white flowers. If two white flowered plants are cross, what percentage
of their offspring will be white flowered? ______________
10. A white flowered plant is crossed with a plant that is heterozygous for the trait. What percentage of the offspring
will have purple flowers?___________
11. Two plants, both heterozygous for the gene that controls flower color are crossed. What percentage of their
offspring will have purple flowers? ____________ What percentage will have white flowers? ___________
Genetics Practice Problems
1. If a black heterozygous guinea pig is crossed with a homozygous white guinea pig with the genotype
bb, what is the probability that the offspring will be white?
2. If two hybrid tall pea plants are crossed, what is the probability that the offspring will have the
tall phenotype?
3. The different forms of a gene are called _________________.
4._______As a result of meiosis, the number of chromosomes
is reduced by half in sex cells.
stays the same in sex cells.
is doubled in sex cells.
is quadrupled in sex cells.
5. ________The purpose of mitosis is to______________
make sex cells.
make gametes.
create identical cells.
create different cells.
6. Both parents have genotype Rr. What genotype could the offspring have?
7. A true-breeding tall pea plant is crossed with a true breeding short pea plant all the offspring are
tall. What is the most likely genotype of the offspring assuming a single gene trait?
8. If two white guinea pigs with genotype bb are crossed, what is the probability that the offspring
will be white?
9. _____Which of the following statements about DNA is true?
DNA is single-stranded.
DNA has the sugar ribose.
DNA contains uracil.
DNA contains thymine.
10. One parent has genotype DD and the other has dd. All of the offspring will be __________.
11. In guinea pigs, the allele for short hair is dominant. What genotype would a heterozygous short
haired guinea pig have? _______What genotype would a pure breeding short haired guinea pig have?
_______ What genotype would a long haired guinea pig have? ________