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Extension: Hair Colour and Genes

The document discusses how hair color is determined by genes. It explains that dark hair colors are dominant over light colors, so two parents need to have blonde alleles for their children to always have blonde hair. It provides examples of hair color inheritance patterns based on the alleles inherited from each parent.

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Extension: Hair Colour and Genes

The document discusses how hair color is determined by genes. It explains that dark hair colors are dominant over light colors, so two parents need to have blonde alleles for their children to always have blonde hair. It provides examples of hair color inheritance patterns based on the alleles inherited from each parent.

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Elisabeth Acosta Rodríguez
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UNIT #

1 EXTENSION Name: .........................................................

1 The words below appear in the text in Exercise 2. Write the words in your own language.
You can use a dictionary.
1 patterns ...............................................
2 parents ...............................................

2 Read the text about hair colour.

HAIR COLOUR AND GENES


Have you got light hair? Have your mother and father With hair colour, dark colours are dominant over light
got light hair, too? What about your brother and sister? colours. So, children with two brown hair alleles have
People in the same family have often got a similar hair got brown hair. Children with one brown hair allele and
colour because they have got similar genes. Each of our one blonde hair allele haven’t usually got blonde hair.
genes has got two alleles, or specific patterns of a gene. They’ve got brown hair.
One allele is from our mother and one allele is from But when both parents have got blonde hair alleles, their
our father. children have always got blonde hair. It’s all in the genes.

3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of to be or have got according to the information in
the text. Choose the correct possessive pronoun.
1 Both parents have got blonde hair so their / his / your children ............................................... blonde.
2 The girl’s hair ............................................... light. My / Her / Our hair is dark because she’s got two brown hair alleles.
3 The father has got two brown hair alleles, so your / their / his children ............................................... dark hair.
4 The mother’s hair ............................................... brown. She ............................................... two brown hair alleles. Our / Their / Her
children ............................................... brown hair although the father ............................................... blonde hair.

4 Write questions with the words below. Use to be or have got.


1 why / children / usually / a similar hair colour / to their parents

........................................................................................................................................

2 how many alleles / in a gene

........................................................................................................................................

3 what / an allele

........................................................................................................................................

4 which hair colours / dominant

........................................................................................................................................

5 two blonde parents / always / children with blonde hair

........................................................................................................................................

5 Answer the questions in Exercise 4 according to the text.


1 ........................................................................................................................................
2 ........................................................................................................................................
3 ........................................................................................................................................
4 ........................................................................................................................................
EXTENSION # UNIT 1
5 ........................................................................................................................................

6 Write a paragraph describing the physical appearance of members of your family.


Include the similarities and the differences.

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