Twelve questions on sex linked genes for SL Genetics
1. Red-green colour-blindness is a recessive, X-linked trait caused by a single gene. In marriages
between a man who is colour-blind, and a woman who is a carrier, what percentage of all their
children would be expected to be daughters who do not carry the trait at all?
A. 50%
B. 75%
C. 0%
D. 100%
2. Red-green colour-blindness is a recessive, X-linked trait caused by a single gene. In marriages
between men who are colour-blind, and women who are carriers, what percentage of the sons
born to these couples will not be red green colour blind?
A. 50%
B. 75%
C. 0%
D. 100%
3. In all conditions in which a defective gene is on the X chromosome, transmission of an allele of
the condition to a male child can be:
A. from neither his mother nor father
B. only from his father
C. only from his mother
D. either from his father or his mother
4. Red-green colour-blindness is a recessive, X-linked trait. In marriages between a man who has
normal colour vision and a woman who is a carrier of red-green colour blindness, what
percentage of all the children can be expected to be sons who are colour blind?
A 25%
B. 75%
C. 0%
D. 50%
5. Red-green colour-blindness is a recessive, X-linked trait. In marriages between a man who has
normal colour vision, and a woman who is a carrier, what percentage of the children can be
expected to be daughters who have normal colour vision?
A. 0%
B 50%
C. 25%
D. 100%
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Twelve questions on sex linked genes for SL Genetics
6. The pedigree diagram on the right shows inheritance
within one family group. It shows that the trait in
question is:
A. sex-linked dominant
B. autosomal recessive
C sex linked recessive
D. autosomal dominant
7. The image below is a partial pedigree for the
inheritance of hemophilia in the royal families
of Europe. Based upon this pedigree,
the allele for hemophilia is most likely to be:
A. sex-linked & recessive
B. autosomal & recessive
C. autosomal & dominant
D. sex-linked & dominant
8. Which is the best explanation that Prince
Sigmund of Prussia did not inherit hemophilia?
A. he only inherited one hemoophilia
allele from his mother
B. he only inherited one hemophilia from
his father
C. he didn’t inherit any hemophilia alleles
D. he inherited two hemophilia alleles
9. Colour-blindness is a recessive, X-linked trait. In marriages between a man who is colour-blind,
and a woman who is a carrier, what percentage of the children can be expected to be daughters
who are colour-blind?
A. 100%
B. 50%
C. 25%
D. 0%
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Twelve questions on sex linked genes for SL Genetics
10. Colour-blindness is a sex-linked trait that is uncommon in women because
A. women have a different gene for colour vision
B. the colour-blindness allele is carried by a gene on the Y chromosome
C. women have to receive the trait from both parents in order for it to be expressed
D. in women the normal allele is dominant to the colour-blindness allele
11. A father is heterozygous for a particular autosomal dominant trait. If his partner is homozygous
recessive for the same trait, what percentage of their offspring can be expected to express the
dominant condition?
A. 0%
B. 75%
C. 50%
D. 25%
12. If Colour-blindness is a recessive, X-linked trait. In marriages between a man who is colour-blind,
and a woman who is a carrier, what percentage of the children can be expected to be sons who
are not colour blind?
A. 75%
B. 25%
C. 100%
D. 50%
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