Name: ___________________________________ Date: __________________ Period: ________

Monohybrid & Dihybrid Cross Review worksheet #4 Cook

Monohybrid crosses
The following problems can be found at this interactive website:
http://www.ksu.edu/biology/pob/genetics/mono.htm For more practice, go to this website.
You can choose hints and go through the problems step-by-step.

1. In dogs, wire hair (S) is dominant to smooth (s). In a cross of a homozygous wire-haired dog
with a smooth-haired dog, what will be the phenotype of the F1 generation?
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What would be the genotype? ________________________________________

What would be the ratio of wire-haired to smooth-haired dogs in the F2 generation ?
_______________________

F1 F2

2. Woodrats are medium sized rodents with lots of

interesting behaviors. You may know of them as packrats.
Let's assume that the trait of bringing home shiny objects
(H) is controlled by a single locus gene and is dominant to
the trait of carrying home only dull objects (h). Suppose
two heterozygous individuals are crossed. How many of
each genotype would be expected if only 4 offspring were
produced?

HH ___________________ Hh _______________ hh ____________________

How many of each phenotype?

Bring home shiny objects _____________________

Brings home dull objects ____________

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3. Saguaro cacti are very tall cylindrical plants that usually have two L-
shaped arms, one on each side. Suppose you lived in southern Arizona
where the Saguaro cactus is common and you happen to have one
growing in your yard. Your Saguaro has two arms but one is longer than the
other. Now, assume that arm length in these cacti is controlled by a
single gene with arms of the same length (A) being dominant to arms of
different lengths. What is the genotype of your cactus?
_____________________________

Could one of the parents of your cactus have had a phenotype

with arms the same length?
_____________________________

If so, what would have been the genotype of that parent?

___________________

Suppose you cross your cactus with that of your neighbor

which has arms of the same length. Your great grandchildren
it takes a Saguaro cactus a long time to mature) find that
half of the resulting offspring have arms the same length &
half have arms of different lengths.
What was the genotype of your neighbor's cactus?

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4. The common grackle is a species of robin-sized blackbirds that are

fairly common (hence the name) over most of the United
States. Suppose that long tails (L) were dominant to short tails in
these birds. A female short-tailed grackle mates with a male
long-tailed grackle who had one parent with a long tail and one
parent with a short tail. What is the male's genotype?

__________________________
How many of each genotype will be found in the
F1 generation (assume 4 offspring)?

LL _________________
Ll _________________
ll _________________

How many of each phenotype will be found in the F1 generation?

Long tail: ___________________________ Short tail: ___________________

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5. The ability to curl your tongue up on the sides (T, tongue rolling) is dominant to not being
able to roll your tongue. A woman who can roll her tongue marries a man who cannot.
Their first child has his father's phenotype. What are the genotypes of the mother, father,
and child?

Mother ____________________
Father ______________________
Child _______________

What is the probability that a second

child won't be a tongue roller? _______________________

Dihybrid crosses
 The following problems can be found at this interactive website:
http://www.ksu.edu/biology/pob/genetics/intro.htm
 Click on the dihybrid crosses link.
 Answer the questions listed.
 You can choose hints and go through the problems step-by-step.

1) About 70% of Americans perceive a bitter

taste from the chemical
phenylthiocarbamide (PTC). The ability to
taste this chemical results from a
dominant allele (T) and not being able to
taste PTC is the result of having two
recessive alleles (t). Albinism is a trait
with normal pigment being dominant (A)
and the lack of pigment being recessive
(a). A normally pigmented woman who
cannot taste PTC has a father who is an
albino taster. She marries a homozygous,
normally pigmented man who is a taster
but who has a mother that does not taste
PTC.

What are the genotypes of the possible

children?
_____________________________
_____________________________________

What percentage of the children will be albinos? _____________________________

What percentage of the children will be non-tasters of PTC? ____________________

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2) Wolves are sometimes observed to have

black coats and blue eyes. Assume that
these traits are controlled by single locus
genes and are located on different
chromosomes. Assume further that normal
coat color (N) is dominant to black (n) and
brown eyes (B) are dominant to blue (b).
Suppose the alpha male and alpha female
of a pack (these are the dominant
individuals who do most of the breeding)
are black with blue eyes and normal
colored with brown eyes, respectively.
The female is also heterozygous for both
traits.

How many of the offspring (assume 16) living in the pack will have each of the following
genotypes?

NNBB ______ NNBb ______ NNbb ______

NnBB ______ NnBb ______ Nnbb ______ nnBB ______ nnBb ______ nnbb ______

What percent of the offspring will be normal colored with blue eyes? ___________________

One more just for fun……

3) In cookie monsters, blue fur is codominant over green fur. The gene loving chocolate chip
cookies is dominant over the gene loving oatmeal raisin cookies. Mr. Cookie Monster is a
heterozygous blue oatmeal raisin eating cookie monster and Mrs. Cookie Monster is a green
homozygous chocolate chip eating cookie monster. They are expecting baby monsters!
Show the Punnett square, parents’ genotypes and list the phenotypes of the offspring.

parents’ genotypes __________________________________________

phenotypes of the offspring

_______________________________

What kind of cookies should you buy for

their offspring?

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