Questions from Genetics


Q: The human MN blood group is determined by two codominant alleles,

The human MN blood group is determined by two codominant alleles, M and N. The following data were obtained from five human populations: A. Calculate the allele frequencies in these five populations....

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Q: You will need to refer to question 2 in More Genetic TIPS

You will need to refer to question 2 in More Genetic TIPS before answering this question. In an island population, the following data were obtained for the numbers of people with each of the four bloo...

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Q: Resistance to the poison warfarin is a genetically determined trait in rats

Resistance to the poison warfarin is a genetically determined trait in rats. Homozygotes carrying the resistance allele (WR WR ) have a lower fitness because they suffer from vitamin K deficiency, but...

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Q: Describe, in as much experimental detail as possible, how you

Describe, in as much experimental detail as possible, how you would test the hypothesis that the distribution of shell color among land snails is due to predation.

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Q: In the Grants’ study of the medium ground finch, do you

In the Grants’ study of the medium ground finch, do you think the pattern of natural selection was directional, stabilizing, disruptive, or balancing? Explain your answer. If the environment remained...

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Q: A recessive lethal allele has achieved a frequency of 0.22

A recessive lethal allele has achieved a frequency of 0.22 due to genetic drift in a very small population. Based on natural selection, how would you expect the allele frequencies to change in the nex...

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Q: Here are data for height and weight among 10 male college students

Here are data for height and weight among 10 male college students. A. Calculate the correlation coefficient for height and weight for this group. B. Is the correlation coefficient statistically sig...

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Q: A danger in computing heritability values from studies involving genetically related individuals

A danger in computing heritability values from studies involving genetically related individuals is the possibility that these individuals share more similar environments than do unrelated individuals...

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Q: A large, genetically heterogeneous group of tomato plants was used as

A large, genetically heterogeneous group of tomato plants was used as the original breeding stock by two different breeders, named Mary and Hector. Each breeder was given 50 seeds and began an artific...

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Q: For each of the following relationships, correlation coefficients for height were

For each of the following relationships, correlation coefficients for height were determined for 15 pairs of individuals: Mother-daughter: 0.36 Mother-granddaughter: 0.17 Sister-sister: 0.39 Sister...

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