Genetics Test Review

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Genetics Test Review Day

There is not very much to talk about that has not been discussed in my previous blog. Today in class we took a short quiz and then spent the majority of the class reviewing for the test. One concept that was clarified for me was sex-linked genes.

Say for example that a female alien with pink eyes is mated with a male alien with green eyes and we are to determine the offspring. (Pink eyes are X dominant). How would we solve this?

First, we would put the female on top of the problem, which would be XPXP and the male on the bottom would be XpY.

We would then solve the problem and find the offspring to be XPXp, XPxp, XPY, and XPY. 

I feel very prepared for the test tomorrow and am excited for what the future holds.