DQ #8


General Biology (pg. 128)


1. What is a genetic disorder?

2. What is cystic fibrosis?

3. What is sickle-cell anemia?

4. If a man who carries cystic fibrosis marries a woman who also carries CF, what are the odds of them having a child expressing (homozygous recessive) CF?

5. Where did Sickle Cell Anemia arise?

College Biology (pg. 177-178)


1. What will the phentypic ratio in the offspring (F1) from a cross between RRYY and rryy where R is for round seeds, r is for wrinkled seeds, Y is for yellow seeds, and y is for green seeds.


2. What will be the phenotypic ratio in the offspring (F2) from a cross between RrYy and another RrYy plant?

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