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questions:
Before you start with the module, be sure to answer the pre-assessment questions.
Pre-Assessment :
Answer briefly the following questions:
1. Pink four oclock flowers are obtained from a cross between pure bred red flower plant
and white flower plant. What is the genotype of the pink flowers?
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2. The structure of the DNA is actually in a double helix arrangement. The nitrogen bases
in each of the chain can only pair with specific bases, like adenine pairs only with
thymine and cytosine pairs only with guanine. If the left chain of a DNA molecule has the
nucleotide sequence CCGTAGGCC, what is the sequence of the right chain of the DNA
molecule?___________________________________________
3. Read the given problem.
In some aliens, one center horn (A) is codominant with two horns (B). If an alien inherits
both alleles (AB), then the alien has three horns. A recessive allele (O) results in an alien which
has no horns. Can you match the genotype to each of the pictures below? Write the genotype
and phenotype of the four aliens in the box provided.
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Materials:
Activity sheets
Manila paper
Marking pen
Procedure:
1. Read the given problem:
Show the possible outcome of the cross between two pink flowered four oclock
plants by using the Punnett square.
2. Now, another cross was made involving a red flowered four oclock plant and a pink
flowered four oclock plant.
3. Using the Punnett square again, show the possible outcome.
4. Show your Punnett square for problems 1 and 2 using a Manila paper.
5. Present and discuss your answers.
Guide Questions:
Q1. How many types of gametes will each parent produce in problem no. 1?_________
In problem no. 2? ___________
Q2. What is the phenotype of a heterozygous four oclock flower?__________
Q3. What are the possible phenotypes of the offspring from the cross of the parental
plants in problem no. 1?_________________
In problem no. 2?_____________
Q4. What are the possible genotypes of the offspring from the cross of the parental
plants in problem no. 1?_________________
In problem no. 2?_____________
Key Concepts
Incomplete dominance is a form of intermediate inheritance in which one allele for a
specific trait is not completely dominant over the other allele. This results in a third
phenotype in which the expressed physical trait is a combination of the dominant
and recessive phenotypes.