Chapter 14 – 1 Assessment (Page 397)
Use or refer to pages 392-397 of the online textbook to complete the following questions:
1. What are autosomes?
2. Explain what determines whether a person is male or female?
3. Explain how you use karyotypes to identify a species?
4. Explain how sex-linked traits are inherited.
5. If a woman with type O blood and a man with type AB blood have children, what are the
children’s possible genotypes? Show a Punnett square to prove your answer.
6. What does a pedigree show?
7. Why would the Y chromosome be unlikely to contain any of the genes that are
necessary for survival?