Exam 10: Patterns of Inheritance

For this problem, you may want to create a Punnett Square on a separate piece of paper. Assume brown eyes are dominant to blue eyes and dimples are dominant to no dimples. John has brown eyes, and his mother has blue eyes. John does not have dimples. Zena has blue eyes and also has no dimples. What are the chances if this couple have children, they will produce a child with blue eyes and no dimples?

In humans, skin color is controlled by several genes. Thus, skin color is a(n) ____ characteristic.

In a pedigree chart, a female showing the specific trait being studied is indicated by a ____.

Face length in dogs is controlled by ____.

When two alleles of the same gene are identical, the individual carrying those alleles is said to be ____.

Various forms of the same gene are called ____.

In the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients, ____.

The mutated gene that causes cystic fibrosis is ____.

An X-linked carrier is a ____.