Monohybrid Practice Problems

1. Tall pea plants are dominant (T) and short pea plants are
recessive (t). Give the genotypic and phenotypic ratios of a cross
between a homozygous dominant and a homozygous recessive
plant.

2. A brown snake heterozygous for the skin-colour gene (Bb) is crossed

with an albino (colourless) snake (bb). Give the genotypic and
phenotypic ratio of a cross between these two snakes.

3. A man with dimples (DD) has children with a woman who is

heterozygous for the dimples gene (Dd). Give the genotypic and
phenotypic ratio of their offspring.

4. Inflated pea pods are dominant (P) over constricted pea pods (p).
Give the genotypic and phenotypic ratios of the second (F2)
generation assuming the parental (P) generation involved a cross
between a homozygous dominant and homozygous recessive plant.

5. Curly hair is dominant (H) over straight hair (h). Is it possible for a
curly haired man and his straight haired wife to produce straight
haired children? What would be the man’s required genotype?

6. A tall pea plant and a short pea plant produce offspring; of which
half are tall and half are short. What are the parental genotypes?

7. (a) What is the probability that the first child of a two heterozygous
brown-eyed parents will be blue-eyed?

(b) If the first child is blue-eyed, what is the probability that they
second child will also be blue-eyed?