A detrimental recessive allele can increase in frequency by way of Group of answer choices founder effects genetic drift heterozygote advantage lower fitness for heterozygotes

Q: In which scenario(s) would heterozygote protection be advantageous? Select all that apply.…

A: Heterozygote protection, also known as the heterozygote advantage or heterozygote superiority, is a…

Q: Which of the following is a physiological or functional variation? Inability to absorb glucose color…

A: Physiological variation refers to the variances in how members of the same species respond to…

Q: Use textbook pages 277-282 to define the following vocabulary words. genetics allele dominant…

A: Genetics- The study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics allele- alternative…

Q: An eye disorder is common on a particular island. If 4.5% of people have both the copies of the…

A: Given information There is an eye disorder on the island. 4.5 % of the island people possess both…

Q: broad-sense heritab for a trait is very high and narrow-sense heritability is very ow, which of the…

A: Broad-sense heritability, defined as H2 = VG/VP, The narrow-sense heritability is the ratio of…

Q: Which of the following is not true of Mendelian segregation? It is compatible with observations in…

A: Introduction :-Mendelian segregation is the process by which pairs of alleles for a particular gene…

Q: Which of the following factors increase the incidence of an autosomal recessive trait in a…

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Q: Explain how harmful recessive alleles can persist in populations, even though they prevent…

A: Sometime natural selection conserves multiple alleles of a gene in a population at a stable…

Q: a population consists of 500 yy and 1600 Yy and 400 yy pea plants YY and Yy produce yellow  yy…

A: Allele frequency is the relative number of a particular allele in a given population. It is useful…

Q: Flower colour in snapdragon plants is a single gene trait controlled by two alleles. In a…

A: Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium is a concept that serves as a benchmark for researchers to analyze gene…

Q: Your parents are studying the evolution of the pumpkin size to make the best patch in your city.…

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Q: The frequency of the homozygous recessive genotype of a given gene in a given population is 0.04.…

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Q: Selection of the most favourable characteristics Transmission of parent’s characteristics by DNA…

A: Mendel then theorized that genes will be made from three possible pairings of heredity units, that…

Q: The biological selection of a particular allele for a trait to be passed to offspring has nothing do…

A: The above statement os based on the Mendels law of inheritance.  Mendel was a biologist who studied…

Q: Gene frequency is the percentage of a population that carries a particular allele located in a…

A: Introduction  Genes are the basic physical and functional unit of heredity. They are segments of DNA…

Q: You discover that selection favors allele A and that this results in an increase in the frequency of…

A: This is also known as genetic drift or hitchhiking effect.   In this allelic frequency changes are…

Q: Selfing changes genotype frequencies within populations. Group of answer choices True False

A: The answer is TRUE    Selfing is the most extreme form of inbreeding is that of selfing—one parent…

Q: Using a Punnett square, the percent chance of a homozygous dominant father and a homozygous…

A: Let's assume the dominant allele be 'A' and the recessive allele be 'a' The genotype of the…

Q: Genetic drift changes the gene flow whereby the breeding pairs have no mutations. Group of answer…

A: Gene flow is the transfer of genetic material from one population to another.

Q: Allelic diversity affects individual variability. What effect is a bottleneck likely to have on a…

A: The bottleneck effect is a phenomena that occurs when a population's gene pool is suddenly reduced…

Q: Lab Data Environment: Polluted Forest Typica Carbonaria Total Typica Carbonaria Moths Released q Р…

A: The Hardy-Weinberg principle, also known as the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, is a fundamental concept…

Q: you expect to be heterozygous? Make sure you format your answer as follows xx.x NOT the number of…

A: According to Hardy Weinberg equation p2 + q2 + 2pq =1 and p + q = 1 Where,  p = frequency of the…

Q: Which of the following does NOT apply to genetic drift? O is not determined by beneficial traits can…

A: Genetic drift is the spontaneous variation in the frequencies of a preexisting genetic variant in a…

Q: It is estimated that every human carries at least one recessive lethal allele (i.e. they are…

A: In diploid organisms such as humans, the efficacy of selection on a deleterious mutation depends…

Q: Recessive blue allele frequency 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2

A: According to Hardy Weinberg equation. -  p2 + q2 + 2pq =1 and p + q =1 Where p = frequency of the…

Q: Which of the below contributes to genetic variation? (choose all that apply).  Group of answer…

A: Here we need to know what causes differences in people's genes. Knowing why genes change is key to…

Q: Selection sometimes favors the extreme phenotypes in a population. This would cause hybrid…

A: Answer. Stabilizing Selection is the selection in which extreme varieties from both ends of the…

Q: hich individuals have the highest fitness among all others where there is no malaria? Group of…

A: Sickel Cell Anaemia is a genetic hereditary disorder in which red blood cells shape changes in to…

Q: Which of the following is a change in allele frequency due to chance alone?   Founder effect   Gene…

A: Evolution is the change in a species over a long period of time.  There are many forces which causes…

Q: What is a genotype? Group of answer choices The genetic code for a trait The measure of the…

A: A trait is a characteristic feature that is unique to particular individual. Each trait comprises of…

Q: Genetic drift can produce large changes in allele frequencies in a short time period. true or false

A: There are a few important points: Evolution is a process that results in changes in the genetic…

Q: A particular allele is mice is lethal with homozygous genotype, however heterozygous mice develop…

A: Lethal Gene is defined as the gene that leads to the death of an individual. These genes can be…

Q: uhite eyes, miniature wings, Wild-type ở notypes Wild-type 9 white oyos, miniature wings,d notypes…

A: Morgan theorized that the first generation of flies in his breeding experiment had solely white-eyed…

Q: Is this trait dominant or recessive? I 1 2 2 2 3 4 II IV 1 1 2 3 dominant recessive 3 4 5 6 5 6 7 8…

A: Introduction The passing on of traits from parents to their offspring is known as heredity, also…

Q: location of a gene on a b. phenotype chromosome C. locus an iorganism's physical characteristics d.…

A: Biological macromolecules are massive molecules that are required for live organisms' survival and…

Q: polymorphic trait and polymorphic gene Drag the appropriate items to their respective bins. a trait…

A: A trait is a distinct quality or attribute that may be seen in or assessed about an organism. Gene…

Q: In a natural population it was noticed that some natural variants with different forms, behaviors or…

A: In the environment if any allele is getting advantages over the other alleles then the frequency of…

Q: All of the following social circumstances are likely to increase the intensity of selection on…

A: Indirect genetic effects (IGEs) are a key factor influencing the evolutionary biology of organisms.…

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A: An allele frequency is calculated by dividing the number of times the allele of interest is observed…

Q: The genotypic frequency of a given autosomal recessive condition is 1 in 5,400 people. The frequency…

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Q: What is the chi-square value of the population the original counts are the largest pumpkin allele is…

A: Chi square test is a procedure in which the statistical data is collected in order to prove that the…

Q: Albinism occurs in the United States at a frequency of 1 in every 160,000 live births. Assume that…

A: Albinism is an autosomal recessive disorder characterised by pigmentation of the skin, eyes, and…

Q: Select all of the processes that can cause changes in allele frequencies gene flow large population…

A: An allele is an alternative version of a gene that can occupy the same locus, or position, on a…

Q: Charles Darwin developed his theory of natural selection without understanding the nature of genetic…

A: Charles Darwin gave one of the most solid theory of evolution  He proposed that the natural…

Mitochondrial Mutations

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