Chapter 7

A man who is color-blind marries and has children by a woman who has
normal color vision. The woman's father had normal color vision but her
mother was color-blind. Color-blindness is an X-linked recessive disorder.
What are the chances that this man and woman will give birth to a colorblind girl (restated: of all the possible children, how many would be
female and color-blind)? 25%
A man with kinky hair has children by a woman with non-kinky hair. They
have five children, three of whom have kinky hair. Based on this
information alone, what inheritance pattern is seen with the kinky hair
trait? single-gene trait
A single bad gene can cause someone to smell like a rotten fish. Which of
the following best supports this statement? As long as a person has at least
one normal version of the FMO3 gene, he/she will not suffer from Fish Odor
Syndrome.
An individual who has the genotype HbSHbA has the phenotype of: having
both normal, circular red blood cells and sickle-shaped red blood cells in his or her
circulatory system.
Given what you know about multiple allelism and blood type, which of the
following statements can be made? The A and B alleles are codominant with
each other.
Heart disease is thought to be a polygenic disorder in humans. Knowing
this, what would you expect to see if you screened a large number of
people for heart disease? Those with heart disease should show a continuous
range of symptoms, from very mild to very intense.
If a baby has "his father's nose," it's because: the baby has inherited many
alleles from his father that work together to shape the baby's nose.
If an individual carries only two alleles, is it possible for a single gene to
have more than two alleles? Yes. More than two possible alleles for a single gene
type is called multiple allelism. The alleles for the ABO blood types are an example.
If an individual that is homozygous for normal, circular red blood cells
mates with an individual that is homozygous for sickle-shaped red blood
cells, their offspring: will have both circular and sickled red blood cells in their
circulatory systems.
If two giraffes were crossed, where one is heterozygous for albinism (a)
and the other has a homozygous dominant genotype, what would be the
expected genotypic and phenotypic ratios? 2 AA: 2 Aa: 0 aa; all pigmented
In peas, yellow seeds (Y) are dominant to green seeds (y). A homozygous
dominant and a homozygous recessive plant are crossed and have two
offspring. These two offspring are now crossed with each other. What are

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the chances that the second generation of offspring (the offspring of the
first offspring) will have yellow seeds? 75%
Little Johnny's father is incredibly organized, but his mother tends to be
messy. When Little Johnny's aunt notices that all of his binders are labeled
and his room is spotless, she claims "you obviously didn't inherit your
mother's 'messy' genes!". What is wrong with this statement?
Characteristics, such as organizational skills, are behavioral and environmentally
influenced. Therefore, they are not specifically inherited.
Looking at the information in the table above, if the A allele results in
normal pigmentation and the a allele in albinism, what fraction of
offspring would you expect to show albinism?
Prior to Mendel: humans observed and manipulated heredity, but did not
understand how it worked.
Recent research has identified two genes that help determine height in
humans. Individuals with the "tall" allele for both genes are taller than
those with the tall allele for only one. Individuals with one tall allele, in
turn, are taller than people who do not have the tall allele for either gene.
This is known as: the additive effect.
The chance of two separate events occurring together is equal to the
product of their separate chances. Two people who are carriers of the
recessive Tay-Sachs gene decide to have children. What are the chances
this couple will give birth to three children with Tay-Sachs? 1/64, or 1.56%
The impact of a single gene on more than one characteristic is called:
pleiotropy
Traits that are determined by a single gene: are common in humans. Is it
possible for a woman to have a X-linked recessive trait? If it is, how can this
occur? Both the second and third choices are correct.
What is the percent chance of a child inheriting Tay-Sachs disease from
parents who are heterozygous (Tt) and homozygous (tt) for Tay-Sachs?
(Enter the percentage as a number below.) 50%
Which of the following best explains Mendel's law of segregation? Of the
two copies of each gene everyone carries, only one of the two alleles gets put into
each gamete.
Which of the following is NOT true about Mendel's genetics experiments?
Mendel believed that a tiny, pre-formed pea plant was passed via pollen to a pea
plant egg.
Which of the following statements is NOT true? Genes for different
characteristics are always inherited independently of each other.

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Which of the following statements is true regarding a cross between a
homozygous albino female giraffe (aa) and a heterozygous pigmented
male giraffe (Aa)? There is a 50% chance that the offspring will be albino.
Which of the following statements is true regarding pedigree analysis?
Darkened shapes always represent individuals with the trait being traced.
Which phenomenon accounts for the fact that most people with red hair
have freckles? linked genes
Your father's mother was a heterozygous carrier of a X-linked trait. If you
are a male, what are the chances of you inheriting this X-linked trait by
direct descent from your paternal grandmother? 0%