The type of inheritance shown when a red-flowering plant is crossed with a...
...white-flowering plant and only pink flowering plants are produced is _____?
inbreeding
incomplete dominance
polygenic inheritance
codominance
2. Eye color in humans is the result of _____ inheritance
multiple allelic
polygenic
sex-linked
simple dominant
3. Which of the following situations is most usual for a dominant allele that results in severe effects in the offspring?
Both parents have the trait.
Only a single offspring has the trait.
The trait occurs by mutation.
none of these
4. Which of the following genetic disorders can be detected by karyotyping?
Down syndrome
Tay-Sachs disease and phenylketonuria
hemophilia and cystic fibrosis
Klinefelter syndrome and sickle-cell anemia
5. A man heterozygous for blood type A marries a woman heterozygous for blood type B. The chance that their first child will have type O blood is _____.
(1 point)
0%
25%
50%
75%
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