QUICK CHECK: Examine YOURSELVES!!

Write your characteristics that

you inherit from your mother.
Write your the characteristics
that you inherit from your
father.
 The Long Lost Child

Mr. and Mrs. Quintana died in tragic accident during a vacation

on a private island. Authorities found that they have lot of money
in the bank and millions of pesos investments. The couple have a
son, from whom they are estranged. This son is the sole heir to
Quintana fortune. Five men presented themselves to the
Quintana’s lawyers, each claiming to be the couple’s long lost
son, who ran away after the misunderstanding with his father.
You are called in as genetics expert to identify who the rightful
heir is.
 The Long Lost Child

You will need to develop a Punnett square based on the

genotype of the deceased in order to eliminate the
impostors. A successful result will identify the true heir.
This mystery will be solved in three parts.
 Part I: Free earlobes are dominant over attached
earlobes. Brown eyes are dominant over black eyes.
Mr. Quintana Heterozygous free earlobes and homozygous brown-eyed

Mrs. Quintana Heterozygous free earlobes and heterozygous brown-eyed

Manuel Homozygous brown-eyed and attached earlobes

Rey Homozygous free earlobes and black-eyed

Isagani Heterozygous free earlobes and homozygous brown-eyed

Diosdado free earlobes and heterozygous brown-eyed

Robert Homozygous free earlobes and black-eyed

 Question: Which men can be eliminated by this trait?
Explain your answer.
• Part II. Codominance and Incomplete Dominance
• Now that _____________ have been eliminated, lawyers ask for blood
tests to prove their claims. The lawyers have also done some research and
read that hair texture is inherited.
 Type A and B blood are codominant over type O.
 Rh+ blood is dominant over Rh- blood.
 Hair textures exhibits incomplete dominance. Homozygous dominants
(HH) have curly hair.
 Homozygous recessives (hh) have straight hair. Heterozygous (Hh) have
wavy hair.
Mr. Quintana Homozygous type A blood, heterozygous Rh+,
straight hair

Mrs. Quintana Heterozygous type B blood, homozygous Rh+, wavy

hair

Question: Which men can be eliminated now?

Justify your answers for each man?
Part III. Sex-Linked Inheritance
We are down to jus ___________. The lawyers now order that a
vision test be performed to test to red-green color blindness.
Mr. Quintana Color-blind

Mrs. Quintana Homozygous for normal Vision

Question: So who gets the Quintana’s fortone? Justify your

answer.