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    This document contains 3 practice problems about sex-linked traits. The first problem involves a family with hemophilia and determines their genotypes. The second problem looks at a colorblind family and calculates inheritance probabilities. The third problem examines a clouded leopard breeding program and predicts offspring genotypes and phenotypes.

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    This document contains 3 practice problems about sex-linked traits. The first problem involves a family with hemophilia and determines their genotypes. The second problem looks at a colorblind family and calculates inheritance probabilities. The third problem examines a clouded leopard breeding program and predicts offspring genotypes and phenotypes.

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    Name: Alliah Camille C.

    Arizala
    Grade and Section: 11 – Assiduous Study Date: 2/4/2021

    Sex-Linked Traits: Practice Problems

    Remember: When writing genotypes, you need to write both the alleles and the sex
    chromosomes – i.e. XNXN
    Answer the following questions about sex linked traits:

    1. In humans, the allele for normal blood clotting, H, is dominant to the allele for hemophilia, h.
    This is a sex-linked trait found on the X chromosome. A woman with normal blood clotting
    has four children: a normal son, a hemophiliac son, and two normal daughters. The father has
    normal blood clotting. What is the genotype for each member of the family?

    GENOTYPE

    XH Xh (Parents)
    Mother – XHXh - Normal, carrier
    Father - XHY - Normal
    XH XHXH XHXh
    (Children)
    Daughter – XHXH – Normal
    Daughter – XHXh – Normal, carrier
    Y XHY XhY Son – XhY - Normal
    Son – XhY – Hemophiliac Son

    2. Red-green color blindness (b) is a recessive sex-linked trait. A colorblind male marries a
    normal female. Their daughter is colorblind.

    a) What are the genotypes of both parents and the daughter?

    GENOTYPE
    B
    X X b
    (Parents)
    Mother – XBXb – Normal, carrier
    Xb XBXb XbXb Father – XbY – Colorblind

    (Child)
    Daughter – XbXb – Colorblind
    Y XBY XbY
    daughter
    b) Can a colorblind father have daughters who are not colorblind? Explain.

    Yes, a colorblind father can have daughters who are not colorblind. If the mother is
    a normal female who is not a carrier of that trait then the daughters will turn out
    normal based on the mother’s dominant alleles.

    c) If a normal sighted woman whose father was color-blind marries a color-blind man, what
    is the probability that they will have a colorblind child?

    The woman is a normal sighted carrier of colorblindness based on her father’s


    alleles, so in marrying a colorblind man the probability of having a colorblind child
    is 50%.

    25% - Normal, carrier daughter


    25% - Colorblind daughter
    25% - Normal son
    25% - Colorblind son

    3. Clouded leopards are a medium sized, endangered species of cat, living in the very wet cloud
    forests of Central America. Assume that the normal spots (XN) are a dominant, sex-linked
    trait and that dark spots are the recessive counterpart. Suppose as a Conservation Biologist,
    you are involved in a clouded leopard breeding program. One year you cross a male with
    dark spots and a female with normal spots. She has four cubs and, conveniently, two are male
    and two female. One male and one female cub have normal spots and one each have dark
    spots.

    a) What is the genotype of the mother?

    The mother’s genotype is XNXn, normal but a carrier of recessive alleles of dark
    spots.

    GENOTYPE

    XN Xn Mother - XNXn – Normal, carrier

    Xn XNXn XnXn

    Y XNY XnY
    b) Suppose a few years later, you cross the female cub that has normal spots with a male
    that also has normal spots. How many of each genotype will be found in the cubs
    (assume 4)?

    GENOTYPE

    XN Xn Female cub – XNXN - Normal

    Female cub – XNXn – Normal, carrier


    N N
    XN X X XNXn Male cub – XNY - Normal

    Male cub – XnY – With dark spots


    N
    Y X Y XnY

    c) Will any of the cubs from this latest cross have dark spots?

    Yes, one of the male cubs turned out with dark spots based on the cross of recessive
    alleles from the carrier mother and normal father.

    d) If so, how many and of what sex will they be?

    There will be four cubs, which of two are female and the other two are male. The
    female cubs will turn out with normal sports, but one of them will be a carrier
    because of the carrier trait of the mother. One of the male cubs will turn out with
    dark spots, while the other one remains normal.

    25% - Normal female cub

    25% - Normal carrier female cub

    25% - Normal male cub

    25% - With dark spots male cub

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