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If an organism has a haploid number of 6 chromosomes how many chromatids are in


a cell during prophase II of meiosis?



60


48


36


24


12

6 chromosomes=12 chomatids


2) Given an individual who is heterozygous at 3 loci, how many different gametic


genotypes are possible with independent assortment



2


4


8


16


32

8

Given incomplete dominance among the pairs of alleles at two of four loci and complete dominance/recessiveness among the pairs of alleles at the other two loci a cross between two tetrahybrids will produce how many different phenotypes (assume independent assortment) among the offspring



18


27


36


49


81

36

What phenotypic ratio would you expect from the testcross of an Fl individual that


gives a 9:6:1 in theF2?



3:1


1:2:1


15:1


1:1:1:1


none


1:2:1

The gene specifying blood group determinants can occur in three alleles: A. R and O.


A while B is regressive. if Luke Skywalker's mother was blood type A and Luke himself were type B, what blood type(s) - if any - would Darth Vader have to be to unequivocally rule him out as Luke's natural father?



A


B


O


AB


A or O


B or AB

A or O


mom: I^A I^O


Luke: I^B I^O

Which of the following has the potential to cause non mendelian phenotypic segregation ratios:



Epistasis


co-dominant alleles


lethal alleles


all of the above


two of the above

all of the above

At what stage of meiosis do homologous chromosomes separate



prophase I


anaphase I


prophase II


anaphase II


sister chromatids do not separate, except by crossing over

anaphase I

Mice with the genotypes BB and Bb are black, and those with the genotype bb are brown.


At another locus the genotypes CC and Cc code for color while the homozygous


recessive genotype cc codes for albinism. What phenotypic ratio would be expected from a


cross between two mice with the genotype BbCc?



9 black, 3 brown, 4 albino


12 black, 3 brown, 1 albino


9 black 6 brown 1 albino


9 black 0 brown 7 albino


not enough infomation

9 black 3 brown 4 albino

The chromosomal theory of inheritance:



a) was proposed by Gleason and Thomas


b) correlated Mendelian phenotypic segregation patterns with chromosomal segregation behavior during meiosis


c)correlated Mendelian phenotypic segregation patterns with chromosomal segregation


behavior during mitosis


d) states that the haploid chromosome number correlates directly with the complexity of an organism


e) none ofthe above

correlated Mendelian phenotypic segregation patterns with chromosomal segregation behavior during meiosis

Two unlinked loci effect mouse hair color. CC or Cc mice have colored hair. Mice with genotype cc are albino because all pigment production and deposition of pigment in hair is blocked. At the second locus, the B allele (black coat) is dominant to the b allele (brown coat). A mouse with a black coat-is mated with an albino mouse of genotype bbcc. Half of the offspring are albino, one quarter are black, and one quarter are brown. What is the genotype of the black parent?



BBCC


BbCc


bbCC


BbCC


BBcc

BbCc

A linear chromosome with the centromere exactly in the middle, so that the two arms are of


equal length, is called:



acrocentric


metacentric


telocentric


sub-metacentric


none


metacentric


A test cross is used to determine if the genotype of a plant with the dominant phenotype is homozygous or heterozygous. If the unknown is homozygous, all of the offspring of the test cross have the ________ phenotype. If the unknown is heterozygous, half of the offspring will have the ____ phenotype.




a)dominant, incompletely dominant


b) recessive, dominant


c) dominant, epistatic


d) codominant, complimentary


e) dominant recessive

dominant, recessive

The gametes of a plant of genotype SsYy should have the genotypes:



a) Ss and Yy


b) SY and sy


c) SY Sy sY and sy


d) Ss Yy SY and sy


e) SS ss YY and y

c) SY Sy sY and sy

In radishes, red and white are the pure-breeding


colors and long and round are the


pure-breeding shapes- The hybrids are purple and oval. The cross of a white, oval, and a purple, oval, will produce more:



purple, oval than purple long


purple round than white, long


red, long than white, long


purple, long than purple, round


purple, round than white, oval

purple, oval than purple, long

The probability of two independent events occurring together is the sum of the separate probabilities



True False

False

Incompletely dominant alleles produce the traits of both alleles when heterozygous



True False

False



co-dominant

A branch diagram can only be used to predict genotypic segregation ratios resulting from genetic crosses

False

All organisms with identical phenotypes will have identical genotypes



True false

False

Pleiotropy means that a single gene can determine multiple observable phenotypes.



true false

True

What two mechanisms act during meiosis to maximize genetic variability among the gametes produced?

...

The amount of DNA per cell of a particular species is measured in cells found at various stages of meiosis. The following amounts are obtained: 3.7 pg, 7.4 pg, 14.8 pg




Match the amounts of DNA with the corresponding stages of the cell cycle below.


G1-


Prophase 1 of meiosis-


following telophase II of meiosis and cytokinesis


Metaphase I of meiosis


Metaphase II of meiosis

G1- 7.4


Prophase 1 of meiosis- 14.8


following telophase II of meiosis-3.7


Metaphase I of meiosis-14.8


Metaphase II of meiosis-7.4


In dragons there are alleles for fire breathing (B) and for nonfire breathing (N) as well as alleles for red scales (R), green scales (G), short tail (S), and long tail (L)


You are interested in breeding these dragons to save the species, which is endangered.


You cross pure breeding, red,fire breathing dragons with short tails to pure breeding


green, nonfire breathers with long tails. The F2 generation of this cross shows the phenotypes in the following table. The loci are not linked





6Green, fre breathing, short tail


30 green, fire breathing long tail


20 green nonfire breathing short tail


70 green nonfire breathing long tail


23 red fire breathing short tail


65 red fire breathing long tail


75 red nonfire breathing short tail


210 red nonfire breathing long tail



which alleles are dominant and which are recessive for each of the three genes?



You want to testcross a dragon exhibiting the THREE DOMINANT TRAITS and that has a triply heterozygoud genotype. What dragon genotype and phenotype would you use to testcross this dragon? (show alleles). What phenotypic segregation ratio would you expect as the outcome of the cross?

...

Nilsson-Ehle made crosses between two types of oats, one with white-hulled seeds and one black-hulIed. The F1 between them was black-hulled, and the F2 (Fl xFI) contained 560 plants as follows: 418 black,106 gray, and 36 white.




How many gene pairs are interacting to produce color differences in the oat hulls?


Propose a complete genetic model (ie, define genes, alleles, allelic relationships and any


other relevant information in your model) for these observations? Give generalized


genotypes for all of the colors mentioned




b) Use a chi-square analysis to support your hypothesis. (A probability table is at the


back of the exam.) Be sure to state the null hypothesis you are testing and your


conclusion from the analysis.

...

Dr.Lucy Lepidoptera is interested in the traits of butterfly species X. vulgaris.One strain of -X vulgaris has gray wings conditioned by the recessive blk- allele. Another strain is homozygous for the allele blk+ that is needed to color wings black. The allele min for small body size is incompletely dominant to the allele max for large body size, and the allele rip- is a recessive lethal allele to rip + assuming the three genes exhibit independent arrortment, what is the expected phenotypic ratio of a cross between the X. vulgaris genotypes?



blk+blk- minmax rip+rip X blk-blk- minmax rip+rip

...

Chickens with shortened legs and wings are called creepers. When creepers are mated to normal birds they produce creepers and normals with equal frequency.When creepers are mated to creepers they produce 2 creepers to 1 normal. Crosses between normal birds produce only normal birds. Explain these results.

...

Both red/green color blindness (R:normal,r=colorblind) and Duchenne-type


muscular dystrophy (D:normal, d:muscular dystrophy) are X-linked recessive traits that


map close to each other. A woman has a father who is re/green color-blind. Her mother's


family has a history of Duchenne's muscular dystrophy. This woman is apparently


healthy with neither color blindness nor muscular dystrophy. She marries a healthy man


and they have four sons and two daughters. Half the sons are healthy but color blind, the


other half have normal color vision, but have Ducherure's musculal dystrophy. The


daughters are both normal. What is the genotype of the woman?



RD/rd


Rd/rD


rd/rd


RD/RD


cannot determine

Rd/rD

With non-disjunction, which parent leads to the sex chromosome aneuploid XYY?



mother


father


either parent


both parent


none of the above; non-disjunction only occurs in animal cloning

father

A husband and wife have normal vision, although both of their fathers are red-green ' color-blind, which is inherited as an X-linked recessive condition. What is the probability


that their first child will be a female with normal vision?



1


0.5


0.25


0


more than one of the above

0.5

Recombination frequencies are most often determined from:



F3 progeny


testcross progeny


F1 progeny


F2 progeny


none

testcross progeny

Which of the following statements about the products (cells) produced when non-
disjunction occurs during meiosis I is true?



Three products of the second meiotic division have too many chromosomes, while


one is missing a chromosome for a particular set.



Both products of the first meiotic division contain dyads representing one


chromosome of each homologous pair.



None of the above statements are true.



two products of the second meiotic division have both the maternal and paternal chromosomes of a set and the other two products have none for that set

two products of the second meiotic division have both the maternal and paternal chromosomes of a set and the other two products have none for that set

How is sex determined in Drosophila?



By the ratio of the number of X chromosomes to the number of autosomes



By the ratio of the number of Y chromosomes to the number of autosomes



By the ratio of the number of Y chromosomes to the number of sets of autosomes



Exclusively by the Y chromosome.



By the ratio of the number of X chromosomes to the number of sets of autosomes

By the ratio of the number of X chromosomes to the number of sets of autosomes

With cytoplasmic inheritance:



the genes inherited in this manner can be found in the nucleus



traits are inherited similar to a Mendelian fashion




the phenotype of the progeny is determined by the genotype of the mother



none of the above



more than one of the above



differences in organellar contributions from the mother (egg) and the father (sperm) is important

differences in organellar contributions from the mother (egg) and the father (sperm) is important

Assume that a cross is made between AaBb and aabb plants and all of the offspring are either AaBb or aabb. These results are consistent with the following circumstance



Linkage with recombination


codominance


i) Independent assortment


eJ Hemizygosity

complete or absolute linkage

Tne sex of sorne birds, some insects, and other organisms is determined by aZW chromosornal arrangement in which the males have like sex chromosome (ZZ) and the


females are ZW. Assume that a recessive lethal allele on the Z chromosome causes death


of an embffi birds. What sex ratio would result in the offspring if a cross were made


between a male heterozygous for the lethal allele and a normal female?



4:1 male to female


3:1 male to female


1:2 male to female


1:1 male to female

2:1

Suppose you discover a new variant in which hamsters have long tails instead of the


usual stubby tails. You notice that this trait seems only to be present in males. to investigate this pattern, you cross a long-tail male with a true-breeding stubby tail female,and find that all of the Fl progeny of both sexes have stubby tails. You then interbleed the Fl and observe that all of the F2 females have stubby tails ,but 1/2 of the F2 males have long tails. You conclude that:

stubby allele is an X-linked recessive


the stubby allele is Y-linked


c) the stubby allele is autosomal recessive


d) the stubby alleie is an X-linked dominant


e) the stubby allele is an autosomal dominant

What is the easiest way to determine if a particular trait of an organism is


autosomally inherited or is sex-linked?



perform a test cross l


perform selfing crosses


any of the above


simply look at the individuals


perform reciprocal crosses

perform reciprocal crosses

In humans, XXY individuals are males with Klinefelter's syndrome- Which of the


following events could not give rise to a Klinefelter's male?



Nondisjunction at meiosis I in the mother.


b) Nondisjunction at meiosis II in the mother.


c) Nondisjunction at meiosis I in the father.


nondisjunction at meiosis II in the father


all of the above could give rise to a Klinefelter's male.

nondisjunction at meiosis II in the fathe

the same as the number of functionally active X chromosomes in the cell


one in every male and none in every female


one more than the number of X chromosomes in that cell


one less than the number of X chromosomes in that cell


the same as the number of X chromosomes in that cell

One less than the number of X chromosomes in that cell

Tortoise-shell cats have a patchwork cololation pattern of orange and black spots.


This pattern is an example of:



somatic mutation


b) mitotic segregation


X-inactivation


) cytoplasmic inheritance


e) matenral inheritance

X inactivation (barr bodies)

Two practical benefits of polyploidy that have been exploited by breeders are:



sterility and enhanced flavor in fruits


the associated bigger cell size and enhanced reproductive capacity


sterility and enhanced nutritional content


associated bigger cell size and sterility

associated bigger cell size and sterility

Which of the follow'ing individuals will have the MOST trouble in producing


functional gametes during meiosis?



tetraploid with 48 total chromosomes


tetraploid with 72 total chromosomes


diploid with 46 total chromosomes


all of the above have equal difficulty


triploid with 30 total chromosomes

triploid with 30 total chromosomes

Individuals with three copies of most autosomes do not survive. Individuals with an extraX chromosome, however, survive with relatively mild (compared to autosomal


J abnormalities) consequences. Why?



The X chromosome contains few genes while autosomes contain a large number



The extra X chromosomes are inactivated by conversion into Barr bodies



The X chromosome determines sex only



The X chromosome carries the Sry gene that mitigates developmental abnormalities



None of the above

The extra X chromosomes are inactivated by conversion into Barr bodies

Which of the following represents a euploid state:



diploid


haploid


tetraploid


all of the above


none of the above

all of the above

In humans, females are____since they have two morphologically identical sex chromosomes



homogametic


heterogametic


hermaphroditic


pseudohermaphroditic


all of the above

homeogametic

In chickens, it is the females that have two different sex chromosomes (Z and W) while the males have two Z chromosomes. A Z linked gene controls the pattern of the feathers with the dominant B allele causing the barred pattern and the B allele causing non-barred feathers. You cross a barred female with a non-barred male. What do you expect for the phenotype of the progeny?



daughters and sons of both types


sons of one type, daughters of both types


daughters of one type, sons of both types


none of the above


daughters all one type, sons all the other type.

daughters all one type, sons all the other type

Doubling the chromosomes of a sterile species hybrid with colchicine is a method used to produce a fertile species hybrid



true false

true

non-disjunction is viewed as a major cause of aneuploidy but has not been


implicated as a cause for polyploidy.



true false

false

Odd-numbered autopolyploids exhibit a larger size compared to their diploid relatives and can be successfully propagated through sexual reproduction.



true false

False

Assue that a species has a diploid number of 24. The term applied to an individual with 25 chromosomes would be trisomic.



true false?

True

It is safe to say that a maternal effect is caused by the phenotype of the parent producing he egg as opposed to the genotype of the offspring.



true false

false

Genes on the same chromosome that aremore than 50 map units aparl appear


to be inherited independently even though they are really linked.



true false

true

Interference is a measure of the degree of suppression of double crossover



true false

true

the coefficient of coincidence is calculated by dividing the observed number of


double crossover progeny with the expected number of double crossover progeny


resulting from a trihybrid testcross.



true false

true

an repulsed (or trans) linkage arrangement is when a recessive allele for one


gene is associated with a dominant allele for a second gene.



true false


true

Map distances based on recombination frequencies become more accurate as


the distance between linked genes increases.



true false

true

In the beetles golden body (go) is a recessive X-linked mutation, and brown eyes (bw) is a recessive autosomal mutation. A female homozygous for golden body and red eyes is mated to a male with brown eyes and a black body.



Predict the phenotypes of their F1 offspring



If the F1 progeny are intercrossed, what kinds of progeny will appear in the F2, and in what proportions?



...

Species X has a diploid chromosome number of 30, whereas that of species Y is 22. After many attempts a highly infertile F1 is produced from a cross between these two species. From this F1, a fertile allopolyploid is eventually derived.



give the chromosome count of the F1 plant



why is the F1 sterile



Give the chromosome count of the fertile derivative

...

In Tasmanian devils, three recessive mutations are h (hairy nostrils), r (rat


tail), and f (short fang). A pule breeding strain of a devil with hairy nostrils and rat tail


was crossed with a pure breeding strain of a devil with short fangs. The Fl progeny were


testcrossed. From the resulting data below, calculate the map and map distances between


linked genes, the coefficient of coincidence, and the interference.



HRF 73


hrf 63


Hrf 96


hrF 110


HrF 2


hRf 2


hrF 306


HRf 348


...

A human with Turner's syndrome would represent:



diploid condition


euploid condition


aneuploid condition


monosomic condition


more than one of the above

more than one of the above

you observe the progeny of a Drosophila cross to consist of all red-eyed females and white-
eyed males. What do you infer the parental phenotypes to be?



red-eyed females and white-eyed males


red eyed females and red eyed males


white eyed females and red eyed males


white eyed females and white eyed males


b or c

white eyed females and red eyed males

Why do genetic mapping experiments become less accurate when the distances between genes


become large?



Recombination occurs less frequently in long chromosomes



None of the above



Interference is greater when the distance between genes is large



crossover gametes become less common



multiple crossovers are more common.


multiple crossovers are more common

One Drosophila genotype PpMm is crossed with another genotype ppmm. If the genes are absolutely Iinked in trans in the dihybrid parent




all of the progeny will be phenotypically pM


b) all of the progeny will be phenotypically pm


10% of the progeny will be phenotypically PM and 90% phenotypically pm


50% of the progeny will be phenotypically PM and 50% phenotypically pm

50% of the progeny will be phenotypically PM and 50% phenotypically pm

Assume that, regarditg apartrcular gene, one scored 60 second division ascospore


arrangement s (2:2:2:2 or 2:4:2) and 40 first division arrangements (4:4) in Neurospora. What


would be the map distance between the gene and the centromere?



10


20


30


60


insufficient information

30

In humans, XXY individuals are males with Klinefelter's syndrome. Which of the following


events could not give rise to a Klinefelter's male?



Nondisjunction at meiosis II in the mother.


b) Nondisjunction at meiosis I in the mother.


Nondisjunction at meiosis II in the father


Nondisjunction at meiosis I in the father


e) all of the above could give rise to a Klinefelter's male.

Nondisjunction at meiosis II in the father

A husband and wife have normal vision, although both of their fathers are red-green color blind, which is inherited as an X-linked recessive condition. What is the probability that their first child will be normal vision and male?



1


0.5


0.25


0


more than one

0.25

With maternal effect:



the genes inherited in this manner can be found in the mitochondria


b) traits are inherited similar to a Mendelian fashion


differences in organellar contributions from the mother [egg) and father (spermJ is important


the phenotype of the progeny is determined by the genotype of the mother


none of the above


more than one of the above

the phenotype of the progeny is determined by the genotype of the mother

A plant of genotype C dlc d is crossed to cDlc D and an Fl testcrossed to c dlc d. If the


genes are linked and20 map units apart, the percentage of C D/c d offspring will be:



10%


20%


30%


40%


50%

10%

The Drosophila genes for white eyes (w), tan body (r) and vestigial wings (vg) lie atmap


positions 2,12, and 42 respectively. The distance, therefore, between w and / is 10, / and vg is


30 and w and vg is 40. Out of 1000 progeny,2l exhibited double crossovers. What is the


degree of interference?



0.10


0.20


0.30


0.40


none

0.30

Duplication of short segments of DNA are often found in the genomes of organisms. These


F are thought to be caused most commonly by:



aJ gene conversion


b] unequal crossing over


cJ transversion


dl reciprocal translocation


more than one of the aboce

unequal crossing over

In theWZ|ZZ sex determination system, females are the heterogametic sex.



true false

true

If an individual is heterozygous for a reciprocal translocation, we would expect about a:



33% reduction in fertility


25% reduction in fertility


50% reduction in fertility


66% reduction in fertility


no reduction in fertility


50%

What is the probability that a man has inherited his Y chromosome from his maternal


grandfather?



0.50


0.25


1.00


0.75


0.00

0.00

Traits exhibiting Y-linked inheritance are called:



autosomal recessive


d) sex-linked


eJ epistasis


holondric


autosomal dominant

holondric

the conversion of a diploid kayotype of 8 acrocentric chromosomes to a diploid karyotype of 4 metacentric chromosomes would be due to:



a) poluploidy


b) deletions


c) translocations


d) centric fusions/robertsonian translocations


e)more than one

centric fusions/robertsonian translocations

Duplication of short segments of DNA are often found in the genomes of organisms. These


events can be beneficial because:



they increase cell size


b) they always induce sterility


c) they lead to speciation events


d) there is no benefit, gene duplications always have a negative effect on phenotypes


e) the creation of gene families through duplication events provide large quantaties of essential gene products to the cell

the creation of gene families through duplication events provide large quantaties of essential gene products to the cell

Two practical benefits of polyploidy that have been exploited by breeders are:



sterility and enhanced flavor in fruits


sterility and enhanced nutritional content


the associated bigger cell size and sterility


the associated bigger cell size and enhanced reproductive capacity


e) none ofthe above

the associated bigger cell size and sterility

Triploids:



are usually sterile


can be produced by the fusion of a diploid and a haploid gamete.


c) have difficulty in meiosis because the non-paired chromosomes have no homologue.


d) result in Down syndrome


all of the above


all except one of the above

all except one of the above

Consider a species with a diploid (2n) number of 20 chromosomes. How many


chromosomes would be found in a tetrasomic body cell?



10


20


22


24


40

22

A triply heterozygous ABC/abc individual (ABC is not necessarily the gene order) is crossed to an abc/abc individual. The following progeny are recovered in the testcross population



ABC 48


abc 42


Abc 44


aBC 46


ABc 4


abC 6


AbC 5


aBc 5


Total 200



what are the linkage associations for the 3 genes. Draw the genetic map for all linked genes.


...

Two mutant genes in Drosophila melanogaster produce the recessive traits


crossveinless wings (cv) and singed bristles (sn). Given the following genetic map, if F1


dihybrid flies (produced from a cross of pure-breeding males with singed bristles and pure-
breeding females with crossveinless wings) for these two genes were crossed to flies that


expressed both recessive phenotypes, what outcome would you predict in terms of phenotypic


classes seen and numbers of progeny in each class (assume a population size of 1000)?



cv________10 mu______sn

...

Consider three recessive traits [pb, ni and ag) in Drosophila specified by the X-
linked genes Pb, Ni and Ag.



a) A female fly expressing all three traits is mated to a wild-type male. What fraction of the female progeny will have all three recessive traits? What fraction of the male progeny will have all three recessive traits?

...

The genes are linked in the following order: Pb-Ni-Ag. A female fly (produced from a different cross than described in a)l heterozygous for all three loci is mated with a male that is homozygous recessive for all three loci. Eight phynonotypic classes are found


among the progeny. The rarest classes are pb-nl-Ag and Pb-M-af. The female fly was


produced by crossing flies from two different pure-breeding strains. What were the


phenotypes of these two parental strains?

...

A man with an X-linked dominant condition "brown tooth enamel" marries a normal


produce a son with brown tooth enamel. Provide a genetic-explanation (be complete)

...

A man rnakes 0 units of an enzyme due to homozygous recessive genes on


chromosome 21. His wife makes 100 units of enzyme due to aheterczygous pair of genes on


cln'omosome 21. Their son has 3 copies of chromosome 21 and makes 200 units of enzyme.


Provide a genetic explanation (be complete).

...

Yellow body [cJ is a recessive mutation located near the tip of the X chromosome in Drosophila: A wild-type [c+) male was irradiated with X rays to induce chromosome breaks and rearrangements, and then crossed to a yellow [ccJ female. Among the progeny, a single rare wild-t/pe [c+J son was recovered. This male was mated with yellow [ccJ females, and the numbers and phenotypes of the offspring were as follows:



256 yellow females


0 yellow males


0 wild-type females


231 wild-type males



The yellow females had a normal karyotype, and the wild-type [c+J males were found to breed in the same manner as their fathers.



a) Explain what type of chromosome abnormality could account for these


results. Be precise in describing exactly what happened to the genome of the


rare c+ son recovered in the first cross.



Use a Punnett square to diagram the results of the cross between the


rare wild-type male and the yellow females



The normal sequence of nine genes on a certain Drosophila chromosome is: 12345-6789


-Some fruit flies were found to have anaberuant chromosome as shown below: 12435-6879



Name the specific chromosome rearrangement represented in this aberrant chromosome and then draw a diagram to show how the aberrant chromosome would synapse with the normal


chromosome during prophase I of meiosis

..

DNA sample B melts or denatures into two separate helices at a lower temperature than DNA sample A. Why is this so?




sample A has greater A-T bp than sample B


sample A has greater G-C bp than sample B;


sample A is flom a prokaryote and sample B is flom a eukaryote


sample A is flom abacteria and sample B is fi'om a virus


e) none ofthe above

sample A has greater G-C bp than sample B;

Which of the following statements correctly describes telomerase?



Telomerase carries its own DNA template.


Inactivation of telomerase contributes to the extended life span of cancer cells.


Telomerase extends the 3'-ends of the template strands of DNA in linear chromosomes-
Telomerase separates the circular daughter strands in E. coli DNA replication.


J1 f"to-"rase unr.vinds the DNA in the initiating stage of DNA replication'

...