RESOLVE GENETIC PROBLEMS:

1. . In a cross between wild type pure breeding recessive and heterozygous dominant trait, if
4 progeny are found to be expressing the dominant phenotype, what will be the expected
number of recessive?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

2. If an H is for tall trait which is dominant and h is the recessive trait for short, which of the
following cross will result in 1:1 tall: short progeny?
a) HH X hh
b) Hh X Hh
c) Hh X hh
d) hh X hh

3. If a true breeding tall pea plant is crossed with a true breeding short pea plant, what will be
the phenotype of the F1 generation?
a) All short
b) All tall
c) 3:1 short: tall
d) 1:3 short: tall

4. Which of the following is an example of a cross between two dihybrids?

A) AaBb x aabb
B) AaBb x AaBb
C) aabb x AABB
D) aabb x aabb
RESOLVE GENETIC PROBLEMS:
Dihybrid Genetics Problems
5. . In an organism you observe that phenotypes of the progeny are as – 315 H/H R/R, 108
H/-r/r, 101 h/h R/-, 32 h/h r/r. This shows_____
a) Linkage
b) Lethal alleles
c) Epistasis
d) Normal ratio

6. By crossing homozygous short purple flowering parent with a heterozygous tall purple
flowering parent you get 41 tall progeny. What will be the expected number of short
progenies?
a) 12
b) 42
c) 60
d) 80
7. . What will be the dyhybrid ratio for a cross between HH TT with hh tt?
a) 1:2:1
b) 9:3:3:1
c) All same
d) 3:1

8. Consider a dyhybrid cross of AaBb with AaBb, how many of the offsprings will breed true?
a) 1/16
b) 2/16
c) 6/16
d) 4/16

9. . If you cross homozygous recessive short plant with heterozygous purple flower to
heterozygous tall plant with heterozygous purple flower, what will be the expected
phenotypic ratio?
a) 9:3:3:1
b) 4:4:2:2
c) 3:1:3:1
d) 1:2:1:2:4:2:1:2:1
10. The expected phenotypic ratio obtained by crossing the F1 generation in dihybrid cross
would be in complete dominance ?
a) 3:1
b) 1:2:1
c) 9:3:3:1
d) 1:2:1:2:4:2:1:2:1
11. . Consider a dyhybrid cross of AaBb with AaBb, how many of the offsprings will breed
true?
a) 1/16
b) 2/16
c) 6/16
d) 4/16

12. A dihybrid cross is performed with two independently-assorting traits. 2345 progeny were
obtained in the F2 generation. How many do you expect to be of the same genotype as
the F1 plants?
A) 321
B) 434
C) 586
D) 721
E) It is impossible to determine from these data.

13. After performing a testcross, one of the progeny demonstrates the dominant traits. Which
of the following IS NOT true of that progeny?
A) It will be a heterozygote
B) It will be true-breeding
C) It will have recessive alleles for the gene under investigation
D) It will resemble one of the parents
E) None of the above is necessarily false
RESOLVE GENETIC PROBLEMS:
1. An individual with a homozygous genotype for a particular phenotype ____________
expresses the phenotype.
a) Always
b) Never
c) Sometimes
d) Unknown relation

2. In case of summer squash, the W locus shows dominant epistasis over the Y locus. W
locus develop white colour while /- give yellow and y/y gives green. If you cross a yellow
and a green summer squash you can’t get______________
a) Yellow
b) Green
c) White
d) You can get all

3. .Coat colour in Labrador retriever is controlled by epistasis. B specifies black pigment, b is

for brown pigment (recessive) and E locus determines the expression of B locus. Which one
of the following is wrong?
a) bb EE gives yellow
b) Bb EE gives black
c) bb Ee gives brown
d) BB EE gives black

4. In case of two gene interaction, the gene which is masking the expression of another is
called_____________ and the gene whose expression is masked is
called_______________
a) Dominant, recessive
b) Recessive, dominant
c) Epistatic, hypostatic
d) Hypostatic, Epistatic

5. The 15/16 of the duplicate dominant epistasis doesn’t correspond to _____________

a) A/a B/b
b) A/A b/b
c) a/a B/b
d) a/a b/b
6. Flower colour in sweet pea shows duplicate epistasis, if purple colour is dominant what is
the F2 ratio?
a) 15:1
b) 9:7
c) 3:1
d) 9:3:4