Name _____________________

Period ___

Genetics

How are wizards made?

Being a wizard or muggle is all decided by genetics. All humans including wizards
receive one allele from each parent. Muggle (W) is dominant to wizard (w).

1. The Malfoy family pride themselves on being “pure blood”. What are the parents
genotypes and phenotypes?

2. Hermionie is a witch, her parents are muggles. If Hermionie’s parents had more
children, what is the likelihood that they would have another witch or wizard?
Witch/wizard _________ out of __________ or __________%
muggle _________ out of __________ or _________%

3. Harry’s parents are both wizards. His mother’s sister is a muggle. What were
his grandparents genotype and phenotype?

What are the possible combinations their children could get?

Witch/wizzard _________ out of __________ or __________%

Muggle _________ out of __________ or _________%

4. Tom Riddle is a “half blood”. His mother was a witch with the genotype _______.
His father was a muggle. In order for Tom to be a wizard, what was the genotype of
his father had to be __________. If Tom’s mother had been a muggle, is there any
possibility that they would have had a child that was a wizard?
5. An animagus is a human that can turn into an animal when they choose. The
animagus is a combination of two dominant genes. If serious Black is an
animagus, what are the possible genotypes of his parents if they do not have the
ability to turn into an animal?
Mom ______________
Dad _____________

If Serious’s parents had more children, what is the likelihood

they would be an animagus?
____________ out of __________ or __________%

6. The ability to talk to snakes (parselmouth) is a heterozygous trait, meaning that you
have one dominant and one recessive allele (Ss). If Harry is a parselmouth and is wife
Ginny is not, is it possible for them to have parselmouth children?
Parselmouth ___________out of ________ or ________%
Not parselmough _________ out of __________ or __________%

7. If two parselmouths married each other what is the likelihood of them

having parselmouth children?
Parselmouth ___________out of ________ or ________%

8. Weasley family
Using F and f, what are possible genotypes of the allele pair for freckles?

9. If freckles are dominant and no freckles are recessive what are the phenotypes for the
above genotypes?

10. Using r (red hair) and R (brown hair) alleles, what possible
genotypes of the allele pair are there?
Genotype (allele pair) Phenotype (appearance)
11. If Ginny has red hair and freckles (FF) , and no glasses and she marries Harry who
has brown hair (Rr) no freckles, and glasses, what are the possible genotypes and
phenotypes for their children.
*Hint glasses (gg) is recessive to no glasses (GG). Make a punnett square for each gene.

Genotypes Phenotypes

Hair color

Freckles

Glasses

On the back, draw a picture of Harry and Ginny’s

three children, with appropriate traits.