Biology
A family consists of two parents and their five children and the pedigree chart shown below shows the inheritance of the trait colour blindness in them.
(a) Who is colour blind in the parents - the Father or the Mother?
(b) How many daughters and how many sons have been born in the family?
(c) What does the child 1 indicate about this trait?
(d) On which chromosome is the gene of this trait located?
(e) Name one other trait in humans which follows a similar pattern of inheritance.
Related Questions
Two pairs (A and B) of rabbits were crossed as given below:
(a) Can you tell which coat colour (black or white) is dominant?
(b) Is the coat colour sex-linked?
Make a Punnett square and find out the genotypic and phenotypic ratios of F1 and F2 generations in the progeny of a genetic cross between:
(a) A pure tall (TT) pea plant with a pure dwarf (tt) pea plant.
(b) Red flower variety of pea (RR) with white flower variety of pea (rr).
Mendel crossed a homozygous pea plant having round seeds (RR) with a homozygous pea plant having wrinkled seeds (rr). He got different results. On the basis of it, answer the following questions:
(a) Which character of seed is studied in the experiment?
(b) Which of the above two traits is dominant ?
(c) Write the phenotype and genotype of F1 offspring.
(d) Mention and state the Mendel’s law shown in the above cross.
(e) Make a Punnett square for F2 generation when two plants of F1 offspring are crossed with each other.
(f) Write the phenotypic ratio of F2 progeny.
(g) What will be the genotypic ratio of F2 offsprings ?
(h) What are the two traits of seed colour ? Also mention which is dominant and recessive ?
(i) Write the scientific name of garden pea.
(j) Write two main features of pea plant due to which Mendel had selected it for his hybridisation studies.
A homozygous plant having round (R) and yellow (Y) seed is crossed with another homozygous plant having wrinkled (r) and green (y) seeds. Answer the following questions :
(a) Give the genotype of the F1 generation.
(b) Mention the phenotype of the F1 offsprings.
(c) Give the possible combinations of gametes that can be obtained from F1 hybrids.
(d) Give the dihybrid phenotypic ratio and the phenotype of the offsprings of the F2 generation when two plants of F1 generation are crossed.
(e) Name and state the law which explains the dihybrid phenotypic ratio.