Pedro and Karli have a baby girl Ella by in vitro fertilization. Ella does not resemble either one of her parents, so they suspect that the clinic made a mistake during the procedure and implanted the wrong embryo. At Ella’s first well-baby checkup they insist that she get her blood typed. Baby Ella is type A-positive. Pedro is A-negative and Karli is O-positive. Given this information answer the following questions. (a) What are Ella’s possible genotypes? (b) What are Pedro’s possible genotypes? (c) What are Karli’s possible genotypes? (d) Is it possible that Ella is Pedro and Karli’s daughter? (e) Explain your answer in (d). (f) If baby Ella needed a blood transfusion, could either of his parents serve as a blood donor? ______ If so, which one? ______________________________ (g) Explain your answer in (f). ________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Kara is B-positive and her father has A-negative blood. Kara marries Ryan, who is A-negative. Ryan’s father has O-positive blood. (d) What is Kara’s genotype? (e) What is Ryan’s genotype? (e)What are the phenotypic ratios of blood types (for both the ABO gene and Rh gene) that would be expected among their children? (Show your work in a Punnett square below!)
Pedro and Karli have a baby girl Ella by in vitro fertilization. Ella does not resemble either one of her parents, so they suspect that the clinic made a mistake during the procedure and implanted the wrong embryo. At Ella’s first well-baby checkup they insist that she get her blood typed. Baby Ella is type A-positive. Pedro is A-negative and Karli is O-positive. Given this information answer the following questions.
(a) What are Ella’s possible genotypes?
(b) What are Pedro’s possible genotypes?
(c) What are Karli’s possible genotypes?
(d) Is it possible that Ella is Pedro and Karli’s daughter?
(e) Explain your answer in (d).
(f) If baby Ella needed a blood transfusion, could either of his parents serve as a blood donor? ______ If so, which one? ______________________________
(g) Explain your answer in (f). ________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________
Kara is B-positive and her father has A-negative blood. Kara marries Ryan, who is A-negative. Ryan’s father has O-positive blood.
(d) What is Kara’s genotype? (e) What is Ryan’s genotype?
(e)What are the
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