Chapter 12 Reading Guide: Patterns of Heredity
Chapter 12 Reading Guide: Patterns of Heredity
Section 12.1
1. A pedigree is _______________________________________________________. It is a diagram made up of ______________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________.
2. Draw the symbols for the following individuals in a pedigree:
|Female |Male |Parents |Siblings |
| | | | |
|Affected Male |Affected Female |Carrier female |Carrier Male |
| | | | |
3. What is a carrier? ________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________.
4. What type of alleles cause most genetic disorders (recessive or dominant)?______________________
5. Fill in the chart about the following recessive human diseases:
|Recessive Disease |Who gets it & how common is it? |What causes it? |Treatments? |
|Cystic Fibrosis | | | |
| | | | |
|Tay-Sachs | | | |
| | | | |
|Phenylketonuria (PKU) | | | |
| | | | |
6. How many recessive alleles does a child have to inherit to show a recessive disease (1 or 2)? _______
7. How many dominant alleles does a child have to inherit to show a dominant trait (1or 2)? _______
8. List 2 dominant traits: a) ______________________________ b) ______________________________
9. Huntington’s disease is a ________________________________________________________________. It results in a ____________________________________________________________________________. No effective ____________________________________________.
10. Predict the chance of a child having Huntington’s disease is one parent is heterozygous for the disease and one parent is unaffected. Show the parent genotypes, the punnet square, and the answer.
Section 12.2
11. Mendel’s experiments are often referred to as ___________________________________ - inheritance controlled by ____________________________________________________________________________. However, many inheritance patterns are ______________________________________________________.
12. Describe incomplete dominance: ___________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
13. In incomplete dominance a red snapdragon flower (RR) and a white snapdragon flower (R’R’) would produce what color of flowers? ________________________ (Do the punnett square)
What is the genotype of the offspring? _______
14. Describe Codominance: ___________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________.
15. With codominance inheritance, a black chicken (BB) and a white chicken (WW) would produce a chicken with what color of feathers? ______________________ (Do the punnet square)
What is the genotype of the offspring? _______
16. Only _______ alleles can exist in an individual cell but ______________ alleles for a single gene can exist in a population.
17. Describe multiple alleles: _________________________________________________________________.
18. Give an example of multiple allelic inheritance from the book: ___________________________________.
19. An individual’s gender is determined by what pair of chromosomes? __________
20. XX is a __________ (gender) while XY is a __________ (gender).
21. What are sex-linked traits? ________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________.
22. In fruit flies, eye color is sex-linked. What would be the genders and colors of the eyes of the following fruit flies?
| |XRXR |XRXr |XrXr |XRY |XrY |
|Gender | | | | | |
|Eye Color (red/white)| | | | | |
23. What is polygenic inheritance? _____________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________.
24. What are some external factors that affect gene expression? ______________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________.
25. What are some internal factors that effect gene expression? ______________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________.
Section 12.3
26. What is sickle cell anemia? _______________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________.
27. What type of inheritance causes sickle cell anemia? ___________________________________________
28. Blood type is governed by _________________________________________.
29. What are the four blood types? ____________________________________________________________
30. What are the three alleles for blood type? ______________________.
31. What are two sex-linked traits in humans? ________________________ and ______________________.
32. Why is hemophilia more common in males than females? ________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
33. What type of inheritance is skin color? __________________________________
34. How many genes control skin color? ___________________
35. Having an extra or three chromosomes instead of two is called? _______________________
36. Having one chromosome instead of two is called? ________________________________
37. Trisomy 21 is another name for the disorder known as _______________________________________.
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