Genetics - Worksheet #9 Sex-linkageProblems
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Make sure that you show the crosses for each problem.Make sure you include a key telling what letters you are using forexample: H is normal and h is hemophiliac. Remember this is sex-linked so you must show sex chromosomes. Use the foilmethod.
Color blindness in humans is sex-linked and recessive. Anormal man marries a woman whose father was colorblind but she wasnot. Â
Cross:
Show the genotypes:
the man
his wife,
the genotypes and phenotypes of theiroffspring.
2. A man with normal vision marries a woman who also hasnormal vision. One of their childrenis     Â
     colorblind. Â
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   Cross:
Genotypes of the man
Genotype of woman , Â
genotype of their child.
3. Hemophilia is caused by a recessive gene on the Xchromosome. Â
    A woman whose father was ahemophiliac but who is not one herself marries a normalman. Â
Cross:
What are their genotypes and what are the possiblegenotypes and phenotypes of their children? What percentage oftheir daughters could be expected to be hemophiliac:
expected to be carriers;
what percentage of their sons will be
hemophiliac: carriers?
4. In cats, certain colors are sex linked. These genesalso display incomplete dominance. Use Yfor    Â
      yellow and B forblack. Tortoise shell color (Calico) is the combination of both Yand B. Â
Cross a tortoise shell female with a blackmale.
Coss:
Genotypes of offspring:
Phenotypes possible for their offspring.
Why are tortoise shell cats always female?
5. In fruit flies, straight wings is dominant overcurved wings. A certain male was mated to a female with curvedwings. They produce 50% straight and 50% curved-wingedoffspring. Â
What are the genotypes for the male,
                                        thefemale
                              andtheir offspring.