This section forms part of the online assessment, and links to the post-practical assessment. You have been tasked with learning about a newly discovered mammal; the Hairy Tree Rat.

The Hairy Tree Rat is found on three islands in the Pacific and have evolved to best suite the environment of the island. The Hairy Tree Rat seems to bear resemblance to the Naked Mole Rat, but lives mostly in tree canopies and is hairy! The coat colouration is unusual; most of the rats are coloured so as to blend in with the tree bark, however, there are also two other colours of Hairy Tree Rat found on the islands.

For coat colour you will use the Punnett Square calculator to mock up crosses and you will need to determine:

You should make notes as you go along and you can save crosses you mock up by copying and pasting into a Word document.

You need to think about genotypes and phenotypes

Assume that the rats are diploid.

Answer all of the questions by submitting your answers online in the post-practical assessment quiz on Canvas. This is set up so that you can submit answers multiple times up to the deadline, and your final entry will be the one marked.

'Knowledge Points' are included to prompt you to question the data you are generating and that you are applying in the genetic analysis (you do not submit answers to Knowledge points but you should take notes about them and consider them when answering the questions).

Now follow the correct link below for your group: