
Jordan C. answered 07/17/20
Med Student Ready to teach science
a) According to the use of a Punnett square, the blood type probabilities for each offspring are as follows:
B= 50%, A=25%, AB=25% Below I drew up a simplified version of the Punnettt square in this situation. Usually when talking about blood type, you would use IA, I B, and i to distinguish between the antigens A, B and O(no antigen). On the top of the square is the AB parent. Along the left side is the parent that is heterozygous for B. This means that the 2nd parent has the blood type BO. Remember that the O blood type is recessive, so you need two i alleles for the person to have an O blood type. Each quadrant represents a 1/4 chance of receiving that specific combination. We notice that 2/4 of the possibilities include obtaining a B blood type. Therefore, we can say that there is a 50% chance the offspring will be B blood type. Also notice that it is impossible to have an O type offspring with this combination of parents. If this set of parents does have an O type child they may want to go on the Maury show because "you are NOT the father (or mother)".
A B
B (AB) (BB)
O (AO) (BO)
b)The X2= sum (Observed value -expected value)2
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expected value
B= [(117-75)^2] /75 = 23.52
A= [(38-37.5)^2]/37.5 = 0.006
AB= [(38-37.5)^2]/37.5 = 0.006
X2= 23.52+ 0.006 + 0.006 = 23.53
c/d) This is a very high number. Analyzing statistics always depends on what P value you are using for the conclusion of your hypothesis. We hypothesized that the offspring results would follow our Punnett square. With a p < 0.05, we would have to reject our hypothesis. This means that the difference between expected and observed results is significant. There may be another factor playing a role here other than chance. Perhaps the sample size is too small?
I think I am missing the table for the second part.