If two parents have an autosomal recessive trait, what can you say about their children? - All the
children will have the trait because it is recessive.
Name the 4 blood phenotypes - A, B, AB and O
What is blood type controlled by? - A gene with the alleles A, B and O
If two parents have an autosomal dominant trait, what can you say about their children. - All the
children will have it if both parents (or one parent) is homozygous dominant. There is a 75% chance that
all their children will have it if both parents are heterozygous and a 25% chance that they won't have it.
If a child has an autosomal dominant trait, what can you say about the parents? - At least one of them
has the dominant allele for the trait
Name the three Rh symbols and their dominance - RR: homozygous dominant (positive)
Rr: heterozygous (positive)
rr: homozygous recessive (negative)
What is incomplete dominance? - Neither of the alleles are dominant or recessive: there is a mixture of
the two traits expressed
What can be said about father to son transmission of x-linked traits? - Fathers don't transmit their x-
linked traits to their sons because the sons get their x chromosomes from their mothers not their
fathers
What are sex-linked traits? - Traits that are due to a damage on the x chromosome
Mendel's law of segregation - The donation of parent gametes to the offspring is random
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