By the end of this lab, you will be able to:

  • Provide potential genotypes if phenotypes and dominant/recessive alleles are provided
  • Complete simple (one trait) Punnett squares with traits that exhibit complete dominance and codominance (blood types)
  • Use genetic terminology such as phenotype, genotype, heterozygous, homozygous, dominant, recessive
  • Explain the experimental procedure of blood typing and interpret results
  • Analyze provided blood type data

Required prior knowledge and textbook readings:

Introduction:

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Part 1:

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Assignment:

If required by your instructor, you can download the assignment for the Genetics lab here [need to link to file when available]. Note that the file download works best using Microsoft Edge or Mozilla Firefox web browsers (not Google Chrome). Once you have completed the assignment, submit the file to your instructor as per their instructions.