Predicting Inherited Traits

“If your child was asked why two brown-eyed parents can have a blue-eyed child, could they explain what dominant and recessive alleles are and show how it works using a Punnett square?”

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• ⬜Defines allele, dominant, and recessive in the context of inheritance
• ⬜Constructs a Punnett square for a monohybrid cross and calculates probability ratios
• ⬜Explains the difference between genotype and phenotype
• ⬜Gives an example of a human characteristic controlled by dominant/recessive alleles