John David M.

Pisigan
12 STEM Nitrogen

Assignment
1. Plant 1, with genotype aa, can only produce gametes with allele a . Plant 2, with
genotype BBCc, what gametes will be produced?

Gametes that would be produced are:

BC and Bc

2. If we assign letter B for flower color, what will be the genotypic ratio and the phenotypic
ratio? B mean dominant violet
BB x Bb
phenotypic ratio:
50% (2/4) pure dominant violet
50% (2/4) violet with recessive trait
genotypic ratio:
2/4 BB
2/4 Bb
3. Given the allelic assignments, the genotypic ratio and the phenotypic ratio.

phenotypic ratio:
16:16 heterozygous alleles
genotypic ratio:
2/16 homozygous dominant AABB
2/16 heterozygous AABb
6/16 heterozygous aABB
6/16 heterozygous aABb

Challenge Yourself
Answer the following questions.

1. You crossed two true-breeding lines of violet-flowered and white-flowered peas. Is it

possible to establish a true-breeding line of the genotype found in the offspring of your
cross? Why or why not?
- Yes, since it is all true breeding line, the more
dominant allele will take over the other, thus the offspring
will show the trait of the more dominant allele than one
other, the offspring will all be violet, as stated in Mendell’s
law of dominance.
2. Would you automatically know the genotype of a recessive and a dominant individual?
Why or why not?
- No, since it is a genotype, the traits that is attached within the genes of an individual
and sometimes can’t be seen through our naked eyes

3. A nondisjunction is a rare event during meiotic division wherein the homologous

chromosomes fail to separate. If nondisjunction occurs in a chromosome pair, what will be
its effect on the gametes and the offspring in relation to the alleles present in the
chromosomes?
- It can cause disarrangement and errors with the genes that may cause some
disorder/conditions such as down syndrome, and the likes

4. A pea plant with a dominant trait is crossed with a recessive individual. Their offspring
have only one phenotype. What do you think explains this outcome?
- Because the dominant trait will win over the recessive trait, the offspring will be the
carrier of the recessive trait.
5. A plant with genotype MmNN is self-fertilized. What is the genotypic ratio of the offspring?

genotypic ratio: 4:4:8:8

4/16 MMNN
4/16 mmNN
8/16 MmNN
Check Your Understanding
A. Determine the accuracy of each of the following statements. Write true if the statement is
correct and false if otherwise.

true 1. Transmission genetics deals with different patterns of inheritance.

false 2. The results of the hybridization experiments of Mendel received instant recognition
and acceptance two years after the publication of his paper.
true 3. Garden pea is an ideal model to study inheritance because it reproduces solely
through self-pollination.
true 4. Locus refers to the position of a gene in a chromosome.
true 5. The two alleles of the same gene are both acquired by one gamete.
true 6. Receiving different alleles for the same gene from each parent makes one
heterozygous for that gene locus.
true 7. An individual that is homozygous for a trait also breeds true for that trait.
false 8. A recessive allele can mask the expression of a dominant allele.
false 9. A cross between a tall, violet-flowered plant and a dwarf, white-flowered plant is an
example of a monohybrid cross.
true 10. The characteristic F 2 phenotypic ratio of Mendel’s monohybrid cross is 3:1.
true 11. If the genes for seed shape and height of peas are independently assorting, then
they highly influence the inheritance of each other.
true 12. The F 2 generation is the offspring of the P generation.
true 13. Both the laws of inheritance operate during the first anaphase of meiosis.
true 14. The alleles for seed shape (round allele and wrinkled allele) should be found on the
same locus.
true 15. The characteristic F 2 generation phenotypic ratio of Mendel’s dihybrid cross is
9:3:3:1.