Exam 12: Patterns of Inheritance

There are no known exceptions to Mendel's law of independent assortment.

Which of the following pairs of words can be used correctly to describe alleles?

The observable physical characteristics of an organism are known as its ____________________.

A Punnett square is used to

In a genetic cross of Gg with Gg guinea pigs, none of the four offspring were gg. This

Two genes control fur color in Labrador retrievers. The first gene determines whether the pigment to be deposited in the hairs will be black or brown. The second gene determines whether the pigments are put into the dog's hairs at all. A dog homozygous for the recessive allele of this second gene will be yellow because no pigment is deposited in its hairs. This is an example of

Gregor Mendel deduced the laws of ____________________ by observing the offspring in a series of pea-breeding experiments.

Experiments involving small numbers of offspring give more reliable results than experiments observing large numbers of offspring.

The first generation of phenotypes resulting from a genetic cross between two members of the parental generation would be seen in the ____________________ generation.

Chromosomes are located on genes.

Which of the following expresses Mendel's law of segregation?

A genetic cross is used to produce organisms from species that would not normally interbreed.

Most genes contain instructions for building

Mendel's laws were able to predict accurately the pattern of inheritance for situations in which

This figure depicts red blood cells from a mother, a father, and their child. The mother and father are the biological parents of the child. What is the mother's genotype for ABO blood type?