Help with Mendelian Inheritance

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GRE Subject Test: Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology › Help with Mendelian Inheritance

Questions
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1

In apple trees, the allele for white blossoms is dominant over the allele for pink blossoms. Two trees heterozygous for this gene are crossed. What is the phenotype ratio of the offspring?

2

A breeder performs a standard dihybrid cross between two plants that are heterozygous for both traits in question. How many unique genotypes could be present in the resulting offspring?

3

A scientist is performing a monohybrid homozygous cross: tall plants crossed with short plants. What fraction of the F2 generation are homozygous tall?

4

Assume complete dominance inheritance for the following question.

A pure-breeding red flower is mated with a pure-breeding white flower. All offspring are red in color; this is the F1 generation. Two of these offspring flowers are then mated with one another, and have F2 offspring.

Which of the following is true of the F2 offspring?

5

A scientist has been working with a new species of plant. He has found that there are two separate genes, which segregate according to standard Mendelian genetics, that are capable of producing the same phenotype. A single dominant allele from either gene confers red coloration of the plant's flowers. Without any dominant alleles the flowers are white. If he crosses two plants heterozygous for both traits, what will be the resulting phenotypic ratios of the offspring?

6

A child is curious to know what his blood type is, but he only knows his parents' blood types. If his mother had blood type A and his father had blood type AB, what are the potential blood types the child might have?

7

In a species of ant, black coloration is dominant to white. A scientist is operating under the assumption that this gene follows basic Mendelian principles; however, after crossing two heterozygotes he obtained a ratio of 2:1 of dominant to recessive offspring. Which of the following could explain this result?

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