GRE Subject Test: Biology › Understanding Pedigrees and Punnett Squares
Peas in pea plants can be either yellow or green, with yellow being the dominant color. The peas can also be smooth or wrinkled, with smooth being the dominant shape. Suppose that a pea plant that is heterozygous for both traits is self crossed.
What proportion of the next generation will have smooth, green peas?
Which of the following choices represents information contained in a punnett square?
I. Potential genotype ratios of offspring
II. Possible gametes produced by parent generation
III. Allele frequencies of the population
A scientist is working with a breed of dog and has noticed that two traits, ear length and color, behave in normal dominant-recessive hierarchies. Long ears (A) are dominant to short ears (a) and black coloration (B) is dominant to yellow coloration (b). If he breeds a long eared, black dog (AaBb) with a short eared yellow dog (aabb), what would be the resulting phenotypic ratios of the offspring?