Name ___________________

Period ___
Predicting Traits

Trait ___________________________________________________________________

Allele __________________________________________________________________

Dominant
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Shown by using a ___________________________ letter

Recessive
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__

Shown by using a ___________________________ letter

A a
A AA Aa

a Aa aa

B b
B

For each trait there are two alleles. One comes from ___________ and one comes from
____________

Each letter is showing _________ allele.

A ___________________________ is the actual genes

A ___________________________is what you see

Pretend that B represents brown eyes and b represents blue eyes. Color all of the
boxes with B brown. How many of the children will have brown eyes? __________
How many will have blue eyes? ________
This is the phenotype

How many of the children have only brown eye alleles (BB)? ___________
How many of the children have only blue eye alleles (bb)? ________
How many of the children have one of each (Bb)? ___________
This is the genotype

Explain why the genotype and phenotype numbers are different

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Explain how it is possible for a brown eyed parent to get a blue eyed kid by referring to
the chart on the other side.
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The charts used to predict what traits can be inherited are called
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Fill in the squares

a a
D d
A
D
a
D

EE Ee

Ee ee
Q q
q

Qq