Fundamentals of Genetics

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Term for homozygous organisms that display two dominant phenotypes at the same time.

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Incomplete dominance

Multiple alleles

Codominance

Linked genes

Red/green color blindness is a recessive trait.  A woman who is a carrier for this allele marries a normal-vision male.  What is the probability that they will have a child who is color blind?

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If a woman is a carrier for a sex linked recessive trait of hemophilia and her husband has hemophilia, which of the following is true.

All sons will have hemophilia

50% of daughters and 50% of sons have hemophilia

All daughters will have hemophilia

100% of sons have hemophilia and 100% of daughters are carriers

What is a possible phenotype of a child that results from a woman with type AB blood and a man with type A blood?

O

A

AA

AO

In the second generation-how many people are carriers of the trait?

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The genes for a trait are distributed to each egg and sperm by chance and _____ of other traits.

Independent

Dependent

Both of this two

None of these

____are the segment of DNA on a chromosome that control traits.

Trait

Alleles

Cells

Genes

Which of these is homozygous dominant?

aa

AA

aA

Aa

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Fundamentals of Genetics
Questions: 8
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