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Punnett Square Practice - Combined Practice (2025)

The document is a practice worksheet for creating and analyzing Punnett Squares, which are used to predict offspring ratios from genetic crosses. It includes step-by-step instructions for setting up Punnett Squares and multiple practice problems involving different traits and genotypes. Students are required to fill in Punnett Squares and calculate genotypic and phenotypic ratios based on provided parental genotypes.

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Punnett Square Practice - Combined Practice (2025)

The document is a practice worksheet for creating and analyzing Punnett Squares, which are used to predict offspring ratios from genetic crosses. It includes step-by-step instructions for setting up Punnett Squares and multiple practice problems involving different traits and genotypes. Students are required to fill in Punnett Squares and calculate genotypic and phenotypic ratios based on provided parental genotypes.

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Name: ________________________________ Date: ____________________ Period: ________________

Punnett Square Practice

Punnett Squares are tools that can be used to predict the ratio of offspring from a mating.

Steps for making a Punnett’s Square:


1.​ Set up your chart. For 1 gene crosses, it’s a 2x2 box.
2.​ Write all alleles from the father across the top
and mother down the side.
3.​ Fill in the boxes. These are the genotypes possible
if the sperm fertilizes the egg.

PRACTICE: Mendel’s Experiment (do with teachers to practice)


Parental (P) Generation Cross:

A = tall​ ​ ​ a = short

F1 Generation Cross:
1)​ The mother cat is homozygous recessive. The father cat is homozygous dominant.

In cats, black fur (B) is dominant to brown fur (b)

a.​ Draw and fill in the Punnett square for this mating.

b.​ What is the genotypic ratio (BB : Bb : bb)?

c.​ What is the phenotypic ratio (black : brown)?

2)​ Harold SquarePants met Margaret SquarePants at a dance. Harold is heterozygous for his square shape, but
Margaret is round (square is dominant over round).
Use the Punnett square to show the possible children Harold and Margaret could have.

a)​ What are the chances of a child with a square shape?

________ out of ________ or _________%

b)​ What are the chances of a child with a round shape?

________ out of ________ or _________%

3)​ Patrick met Patti at the dance. Both of them are heterozygous for their pink body color, which is dominant
over yellow body color.
Create a Punnett square to show the possibilities that would result if Patrick and Patti had children.

a)​ What are the chances of a child with a pink color?

________ out of ________ or _________%

b)​ What are the chances of a child with a yellow color?

________ out of ________ or _________%


4) Everyone in Squidward’s family has light blue skin, which is the dominant trait for body color in his hometown
of Bikini Bottom. His family brags that they are a “purebred” line, and are composed of all light blue skin alleles.
Squidward recently married a nice girl (Squilvia) who has light green skin, which is a recessive trait.

Create a Punnett square to show the possibilities that would result if Squidward and his new bride had children.
Use B to represent the dominant gene and b to represent the recessive gene.

c)​ What are the chances of a child with light blue skin?

__________%

d)​ What are the chances of a child with light green skin?

__________%

5) Earlobes have two forms, attached and unattached.

Unattached earlobes are dominant (A) and attached earlobes are


recessive (a).

The father has a genotype of AA. The mother has a genotype of aa.

Use this information to answer problems 1 – 4.

1.​ What is the father’s phenotype?​


Answer: ___________________

2.​ What is the mother’s phenotype?


Answer: ___________________

3.​ Complete the Punnett Square on the right. What are the
chances that they will have a child who has attached earlobes
(aa)?
Answer: ________________________

1.​ Based on your Punnett Square. What are the chances that they will have a child that has unattached earlobes
(AA or Aa)?

Answer: _________________________
6) Having a widow’s peak is a dominant trait (H). Having a straight hairline is a recessive trait (h).

Both parents are heterozygous.

Complete the Punnett Square on the right.

What are the possible genotypes of their children?

Answer: _________________________

7) Gray feathers (F) are the dominant phenotype in parrots, while green feathers (f) are recessive. A male and a
female parrot are heterozygous and have gray feathers.

Complete the Punnett Square on the right.

What is the likelihood that their offspring will have green feathers?

Answer: _________________________

8) Dimples (D) are dominant in humans, and not having dimples (d) is recessive. Two parents are heterozygous
and have dimples.

Complete the Punnett Square on the right.​

They have three children, and none of the children have dimples.
Explain how this can happen based on the Punnett Square.

Answer:
________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________
9) Long wings (F) are dominant in dragonflies and short wings (f)
are recessive.

One dragonfly is heterozygous for long wings.

Its mate is homozygous and has short wings.

Complete the Punnett Square on the right.

What is the probability that their offspring will have short


wings?

Answer: _________________

10) Widows peaks are dominant (H) over straight hairlines (h) in humans.

Tamara and Daniel are married.

Daniel is heterozygous and has a widow’s peak. Tamara is homozygous recessive.

Draw and complete a Punnett Square in the blank space to


the right.

What is the probability that they have a child who has a


widow’s peak?

Answer: _________________

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