The following experiment is designed to study the role of several hormones in the regulation of metamorphosis in frogs.

Group #	Treatment	Days to Metamorphosis
1	Saline	30
2	Prolactin	> 100
3	TSH	15
4	Thyroxine	10
5	Corticosterone	30
6	Thyroxine + Corticosterone	5
7	Prolactin + TSH	30
8	Thyroid gland removed	> 100

 

If the thyroid gland were removed from the tadpoles in Group 4, metamorphosis would

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

In a group of fruit flies homozygous for an allele that causes a reduced number of thoracic bristles, you notice that the number of bristles varies from about half the normal number to only a few bristles. This is an example of which of the following?

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

You are trying to develop true breeding blue hydrangeas, but the plants in one corner of your plot consistently turn pink regardless of your mating strategy. Which of the following would you suspect?

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

A trait that appears to be dominant in one sex but recessive in the other is called:

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

You cross a true breeding normal corn plant with a true breeding plant with variegated seed coat and colorless endosperm. You suspect the genes are linked, so you cross one of the resulting normal offspring to a true breeding variegated, colorless plant. What are your expected results if the genes are completely linked?

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

You set up a mapping cross involving your favorite gene (YFG) in Neurospora and determine the following octad types: 4:4 arrangement 83; 2:4:2 arrangement 7; 2:2:2:2 arrangement 10. What is the distance between your gene and the centromere?

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

How might the results of Bernard Davis's U tube experiment have been different if each strain were only mutant for a single gene?