11-16. Choose from the column on the
right an example of each of the following:
11. sex linked characteristic __f____ |
a. brown eyes |
12. recessive allele__d___ |
b. Bb x Bb |
13. heterozygous genotype ___e__ |
c. B (Brown eyes) |
14. monohybrid cross __b___ |
d. b (blue eyes) |
15. multiple alleles __g___ |
e. Bb |
16. phenotype __a___ |
f. hemophilia |
|
g. ABO blood group |
You should know that both red/green color vision and
hemophilia are sex linked traits. Study Objectives 19
and 20 for the procedure you use when you work a problem involving a sex linked trait. In
particular, note that males have only ONE gene for a sex liked trait. Note how the
genotype for males involving sex linked traits is written.
Recessive alleles are always written using a lower case
letter.
A genotype that is heterozygous is one in which the two
alleles are not the same.
A monohybrid cross is one that is concerned with the
inheritance pattern of ONE trait. A dihybrid cross involves two traits (for
example,LLGg X Llgg). In reality, crosses involve thousands of traits! One
would need a computer to even begin to follow such crosses!
Many characteristic are controlled by more than two allelic forms. The ABO blood
group is the traditional example of multiple alleles used in
beginning biology. One's blood type is determined by any combination of two of the
following alleles - IA , IB, and i. For example, an individual of
blood type A (the individual's phenotype) could have the genotype of either IAIA
or IAi. This is also a good example of dominance relationships.
Note that alleles IA and IB are codominant whereas i is recessive to
both IA and IB.
A WORD is used to describe a phenotype (not letters). When
letters are used one is specifying either an allele or the allele that a gamete contains.(example
L ) or a genotype (example AA).