Concepts of Genetics (12th Edition)
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Author: William S. Klug, Michael R. Cummings, Charlotte A. Spencer, Michael A. Palladino, Darrell Killian
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Concepts of Genetics (12th Edition)
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Ch. 26 - The genetic difference between two Drosophila...Ch. 26 - The use of nucleotide sequence data to measure...Ch. 26 - Prob. 6PDQCh. 26 - What must be assumed in order to validate the...Ch. 26 - In a population where only the total number of...Ch. 26 - If 4 percent of a population in equilibrium...Ch. 26 - Consider a population in which the frequency of...Ch. 26 - If the initial allele frequencies are p = 0.5 and...Ch. 26 - Under what circumstances might a lethal dominant...Ch. 26 - Assume that a recessive autosomal disorder occurs...Ch. 26 - One of the first Mendelian traits identified in...Ch. 26 - Describe how populations with substantial genetic...Ch. 26 - Achondroplasia is a dominant trait that causes a...Ch. 26 - Prob. 17PDQCh. 26 - Prob. 18PDQCh. 26 - A botanist studying water lilies in an isolated...Ch. 26 - A farmer plants transgenic Bt corn that is...Ch. 26 - In an isolated population of 50 desert bighorn...Ch. 26 - To increase genetic diversity in the bighorn sheep...Ch. 26 - What genetic changes take place during speciation?Ch. 26 - Some critics have warned that the use of gene...Ch. 26 - Prob. 25PDQCh. 26 - What are the two groups of reproductive isolating...Ch. 26 - A form of dwarfism known as Ellisvan Creveld...Ch. 26 - The original source of new alleles, upon which...Ch. 26 - A number of comparisons of nucleotide sequences...Ch. 26 - Shown below are two homologous lengths of the...Ch. 26 - Recent reconstructions of evolutionary history are...
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