A dog's phenotype can be determined by _____.

What phenotype is depicted in Figure 12-8?

In Figure 12-7, the trait shown is _____.

The _____ produced by each parent are shown along the sides of a Punnett square.

A white mouse whose parents are both white produces only brown offspring when mated with a brown mouse. The white mouse is most probably _____.

The statement: "In meiosis, the way in which a chromosome pair separates does not affect the way other pairs separate," is another way of expressing Mendel's law of _____.

A trait controlled by four alleles is said to have _____.

A useful device for predicting the possible offspring of crosses between different genotypes is the _____.

The type of inheritance shown when a red-flowering plant is crossed with a white-flowering plant and only pink-flowering plants are produced is _____.

The blood types A, B, AB, and O are the result of _____ inheritance.

Cells containing two alleles for each trait are described as _____.

How should the completed bottom row of Figure 10-7 read?

What fraction of this cross will be dominant for both traits?

For the trait being followed in the pedigree, individuals II-1 and II-4 in Figure 12-1 can be classified as _____.

What type of inheritance pattern does the trait represented by the shaded symbols in Figure 12-1 illustrate?

Refer to Figure 12-1. If individual III-2 marries a person with the same genotype as individual I-1, what is the chance that one of their children will be afflicted with hemophilia?

A phenotype that results from a dominant allele must have at least _____ dominant allele(s) present in the parent(s).

A couple has two children, both of whom are boys. What is the chance that the parents' next child will be a boy?

The passing on of traits from parents to offspring is called _____.

A child is diagnosed with a rare genetic disease. Neither parent has the disease. How might the child have inherited the disorder?

The diagram in Figure 10-2 shows a diploid cell with two homologous pairs of chromosomes. Due to independent assortment, the possible allelic combinations that could be found in gametes produced by the meiotic division of this cell are _____. (HINT: Dihybrid FOIL)

Figure 10-2

The law of independent assortment states that the inheritance of alleles for one trait is not affected by the inheritance of alleles for a different trait if the genes for the traits are on _____.

If a female fruit fly heterozygous for red eyes (X^RX^r) crossed with a white-eyed male (X^rY), what percent of their offspring would have white eyes?

Which of the following describes an organism that has the genotype Bb?

A man heterozygous for blood type A marries a woman heterozygous for blood type B. The chance that their first child will have type O blood is _____.

Because the gene for red-green color blindness is located on the X chromosome, it is normally not possible for a _____.

In humans, red-green color blindness is _____.

When roan cattle are mated, 25% of the offspring are red, 50% are roan, and 25% are white. Upon examination, it can be seen that the coat of a roan cow consists of both red and white hairs. This trait is one controlled by _____.

A female guinea pig homozygous dominant for black fur color is mated with a male homozygous for white fur color. In a litter of eight offspring, there would probably be _____.

The gamete that contains genes contributed only by the mother is _____.

In mink, brown fur color is dominant to silver-blue fur color. If a homozygous brown mink is mated with a silver-blue mink and 8 offspring are produced, how many would be expected to be silver-blue?

Eye color in humans is the result of _____ inheritance.

Mendel's law of segregation states that during meiosis, the factors that control each trait separate, and only _____ from each pair is/are passed to the offspring.

Royal hemophilia is the result of _____ inheritance.

Two healthy parents produce a child with the genetic disorder of cystic fibrosis, which is the result of a recessive gene. What would be the best explanation for this inheritance?

A cross between a white rooster and a black hen results in 100% blue Andalusian offspring. When two of these blue offspring are mated, the probable phenotypic ratio seen in their offspring would be _____.

The 23rd pair of chromosomes that differ in males and females are called _____.