Chapter 14B Homework Questions

1. How many squares would there be in a Punnett square of a trihybrid cross?

2. Describe a test cross?

3. What is the law of probability that governs independent events?

4. What is the difference between a genotype and a phenotype?

5. What is incomplete dominance and how does it manifest itself? Is incomplete dominance consistent with particulate inheritance? Explain.

6. What is Tay-Sachs disease and how is it inherited?

7. What are multiple alleles. What is an example.

8. What is pleiotropy?

9. What is epistasis?