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CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS

13 November, 2015 - 16:09
  1. Describe one of the reasons that made the garden pea an excellent choice of model system for studying inheritance.
  2. Use a Punnett square to predict the offspring in a cross between a dwarf pea plant (homozygous recessive) and a tall pea plant (heterozygous). What is the phenotypic ratio of the offspring?
  3. Use a Punnett square to predict the offspring in a cross between a tall pea plant (heterozygous) and a tall pea plant (heterozygous). What is the genotypic ratio of the offspring?
  4. Can a male be a carrier of red-green color blindness?
  5. Could an individual with blood type O (genotype ii) be a legitimate child of parents in which one parent had blood type A and the other parent had blood type B?