Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
N a t i o n a l C a pi t a l Re g i o n
Sc h o o l s D i v i s i o n O f f i c e o f La s Pi ñ a s C i t y

Learning Activity Worksheets (LAW)

Science 9

Name: ___________________________ Date: _________ Rating/Score_________

PATTERNS OF NON-MENDELIAN INHERITANCE

Activity 1. What Pattern am I?
Directions: Determine if the following pictures exhibit CODOMINANCE or
INCOMPLETE DOMINANCE. Write your answer on the space provided.

(white flower) (red flower) (pink flower)

(brown cow) (white cow) (Roan cow)

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Activity 2: Fair and Square

Direction: Use Punnet square to predict the offspring based on the type of inheritance.
1.If the two erminette chickens (BW) were B W
crossed, what is the probability that they
B
a. would have a black chick?
b. would have a white
_________________
chick? W

_________________

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Target Competency: Explain the incomplete dominance pattern of inheritance and describe
the codominance traits ( S9LT-Id-29.4.1)
 R R
2. A red flower plant (RR) is crossed with the
white flower plant (WW). What is the probability of W
producing a pink flower plant (RW)?
W

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Activity 3. Analyze Me
Directions: Read, analyze and solve the problems. Write your answer on the space
provided after the question.

1. In some chickens, the gene for feather color is controlled by codominance. The
allele for black is B and the allele for white is W. The heterozygous phenotype is
known as erminette.

What is the genotype for black chicken? ________________

What is the genotype for white chicken? ________________

What is the genotype for erminette chicken? ________________

2. In four o’clock flower, the color is controlled by incomplete dominance. The two
alleles are red (R) and white (W). The heterozygous genotype is expressed as
pink.

What is the phenotype of a plant with the genotype RR? _______________

What is the phenotype of a plant with the genotype WW? _______________

What is the phenotype of a plant with the genotype RW? _______________

3. What cross will produce the most pink-flowered plants? Show a Punnett square
to support your answer

Parents: __________ X __________

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Activity 4. Complete My Percentage

Directions: Complete the Punnett square based on the information in the pictures. Then
answer the questions.

Genotype Phenotype
RR Red flower
rr White flower
Rr Pink flower
RR rr Rr

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Target Competency: Explain the incomplete dominance pattern of inheritance and describe
the codominance traits ( S9LT-Id-29.4.1)
 What percentage of the
1. offspring will have pink flower?
____________
What percentage of the
offspring will have white
flower? ____________
RR rr

2.
What percentage of
the offspring will have
white flower?
____________
What percentage of
Rr Rr the offspring will have
pink flower?
____________
3.

What percentage of
offspring will have a
heterozygous
genotype?
____________
Rr RR
What percentage of the
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offspring will have white
flower? ____________
Activity 5: Blood Typing
Directions: Refer to the table and answer the questions.

Blood Type Genotype Can donate blood to: Can receive blood from:
(Phenotype)
O ii A, B, AB and O O
Universal donor
AB IAIB AB A, B < AB and O
Universal receiver
A IAIA or IAi AB, A O, A
B IBIB or IBi AB, B O, B

1. Write the genotype for each person based on the description:

a. Homozygous for the “B” allele __________
b. Heterozygous for the “A” allele __________
c. Type O __________
d. Type “A “and had a type” O” parent __________
e. Type “AB” __________
f. Can be donated to anybody __________
g. Can only get blood from a type “O” donor __________
h. Genotype that shows blood types are codominant __________
i. 2 genotypes that show usual complete dominance __________

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Target Competency: Explain the incomplete dominance pattern of inheritance and describe
the codominance traits ( S9LT-Id-29.4.1).
Determine all possible combinations of genes for a specific blood type (S9LT-Id-29.4.2).
 2. Pretend that Mateo is homozygous for the type B allele, and Sarah is type “O”.
What are all possible blood types of their baby? Write the genotype and phenotype
percentages. Use Punnett square to support your answer.
Genotype : ____________

Phenotype: ____________

Activity 6. Genotypic Me
Directions: Read and analyze the problem. Write your answer on the blank provided.

1. In terms of blood type, Mrs. Reyes is type A and Mr. Reyes is type O. They have
three children named Abel, Juan and Pedro. Juan is type O, Abel is type A, and
Pedro is type AB. Based on this information:
a. Mr. Reyes must have the genotype ______________.
b. Mrs. Reyes must have the genotype _______________
because __________ has blood type ________________.
c. Pedro cannot be the child of these parents because neither parent has the
allele _______________.

2. Parents think their baby was switched at the hospital. It’s 1968, so DNA
fingerprinting technology does not exist yet. The mother has blood type O, the
father has blood type AB, and the baby has blood type B.
a. Mother’s genotype: _______________
b. Father’s genotype: _______________
c. Baby’s genotype: _______________ or _______________
d. Use the Punnett square showing all possible genotypes for children
produced by this couple.

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Target Competency: Determine all possible combinations of genes for a specific blood type
(S9LT-Id-29.4.2)
 SEX-LINKED, SEX-INFLUENCED TRAIT AND
STRUCTURE OF THE DNA

Activity 7: Boy or Girl?

Directions: Complete the Punnett square below and answer the guide questions.

Guide Questions:

1. What will be the sex of the child produced when an egg is fertilized by a sperm
that has a Y chromosome? ______________________
2. What sperm must fertilize an egg to result a female child? ____________
3. How many percent will they have a male offspring? _________________
4. Which chromosomes determine a person’s sex or gender? _________________

Activity 8: Complete Me
Directions: Complete the sentences by supplying the correct word/figure from the box.
Choices can be used twice.

46 2 44

X Y sex chromosomes

Males have ________ body chromosomes and ______ sex chromosomes ______
and ______. The ________ determine the sex of their children. Females have
_______body chromosomes and two sex chromosomes both ______. The total number
in each of an individual is ______. These chromosomes contain genes, which is factors
of heredity.

Activity 9: Genetics Probability Problems ~ Sex-Linked Traits

Directions: Analyze and solve the following sex-linked problems.
1. Colorblindness is a recessive, sex-linked disorder in
humans. A colorblind man (Xc Y) has a child with a
woman who is a carrier (XC Xc) of the disorder.
a. What is the genotype of the man? ______

b. What is the genotype of the woman? ______

c. Fill in the Punnett Square to the right.

d. What is the chance that the child will be colorblind? _____

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Target Competency: Determine the probability of having a male or female gender
(S9LT-Id-29.4.3)
Explain the sex- linked and sex- influenced trait (S9LT-Id-29.4.4)
 e. What is the chance that a daughter will be colorblind? _____

f. What is the chance that a son will be colorblind? _____

2. In fruit flies, red eyes are dominant over white eyes. Eye color is a sex-linked
trait.

A red-eyed male mates with a white-eyed female.

a. Make a key with eye color in fruit flies.

XR = ____________ Xr = ____________
b. What is the genotype of the male? ________

c. What is the genotype of the female? ________

d. Fill in the Punnett Square to the right.

e. What is the chance that there will be an offspring

with white eyes? _______

3. In humans, hemophilia is a sex-linked recessive trait. If a female who is a carrier

(XH Xh) for hemophilia marries a male with normal blood clotting (XH Y), what
percentage of the:

a. female children will have hemophilia? _______________

b. female children will be carriers? _______________
c. male children will have normal blood clotting? _______________
d. male children will be carriers? ______________
e. male children will have hemophilia? _____________

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Activity 10: Sex-Linked and Sex-Influenced Genetic Problems

Direction: Use the following information to answer the questions below:

XH = normal blood clotting

Xh = hemophilia
XM = Normal
Xm = muscular dystrophy
XC =Normal Vision
Xc = colorblind

1. Write the genotypes for the following individuals:

a. female with no family history of hemophilia ______________
b. male with hemophilia ______________

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Target Competency: Explain the sex- linked and sex- influenced trait (S9LT-Id-29.4.4)
 c. male with muscular dystrophy ______________
d. male with normal color vision ______________
e. normal color vision female with colorblind father ______________
f. male with normal blood clotting ______________
g. colorblind male ______________

2.Cross a female who is a carrier of the gene for

hemophilia with a man who has normal blood clotting. Identify
the expected phenotypic ratio of the offspring.

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Activity 11: DNA Structure

Directions: Study the structure of the DNA and answer the following questions.

1. What do the letters in DNA stand for? ______________________________

2.The “backbone” of the DNA molecules is made up of two alternating components.

What are these? _________________ , _________________

3.There are four different variations of these monomers (four different bases).
What are the names of those bases?
a. _____________________
b. _____________________
c. _____________________
d. _____________________

4.The two bases that are purines are:

a. ____________________
b. ____________________

5. The two bases that are pyrimidines

are:
a. ____________________
b. ____________________

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Target Competency: Identify the components of a DNA molecule (S9LT-Id-29.4.5)
Activity 12: DNA Base Pairing
Directions: Write the complementary DNA strand for each given strand of DNA.
Use the base-pairing rules below.

▪ This is the original strand:

1. T C G T A A G C G C T A A T T A

_____________________________________________________________

2. T C T T A A A T G A T C G A T C

______________________________________________________________

3. A A T G A A T A G C T A G C T T
______________________________________________________________

Activity 13: Fill in my DNA

Directions: Write the terms that would correctly fit the spaces in the paragraph. Use the
word bank provided.

Adenine Cytosine Deoxyribose Guanine

DNA polymerase Double helix Nucleotide Purine

Nitrogenous base Pyrimidine Strong Thymine

DNA is composed of __________, which have three components. The three

components are the five-carbon sugar called ___________, a phosphate group, and a
____________ such as adenine or guanine. The bases always from complementary
pairs. Adenine always bonds with __________ and guanine always bonds with
____________. When matched this way, a purine is always paired to a pyrimidine.
Adenine and guanine are larger and called ____________. Thymine and cytosine are
____________.
The bases described above from the “rungs” of the twisted ladder-shaped DNA
molecule. The bonds between the bases are ____________.
The two other components of DNA make up the sides of the ladder, which are
called ____________. The bonds here are ____________. The shape of the complete
DNA molecules called a ____________.

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Target Competency: Identify the components of a DNA molecule (S9LT-Id-29.4.5)