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World 1 · Mendel Basics · 7 min

The Punnett square

A grid for predicting offspring

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A Punnett square lays one parent’s gametes across the top and the other’s down the side. Each inner cell is one possible offspring genotype.

Count the cells to read off both the genotype ratio and the phenotype ratio.

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