If, someday, an archaean cell is discovered whose SSU-rRNA sequence is more similar to that of humans than the sequence of mouse SSU-rRNA is to that of humans, the best explanation for this apparent discrepancy would be

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Phenotypic variation that is due to genetic differences is referred to as heritability. It can be the Broad-sense heritability and Narrow-sense heritability, the Broad-sense heritability which is ranges from 0 to 1. Identify the correct prediction about these ranges?

a) 0 is all of the phenotypic variance results from differences in genotype

b) 0 is all of the phenotypic variance results from environmental variation

c) 1 is all of the phenotypic variance results from differences in genotype

d) 1 is all of the phenotypic variance results from environmental variation

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Which one of the following statements is INCORRECT?

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Phenotypic variation is analyzed for milk production in a herd of dairy cattle and the following variance components are obtained: Additive genetic variance= 0.4, Dominance genetic variance= 0.1, Genic interaction variance= 0.2, Environmental variance= 0.5, Genetic−environmental interaction variance= 0.0,  the heritability (H2) of milk production is___

1.20

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

When an organism gains one extra copy of a chromosome but not a complete haploid set, the conditions is known as

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

It was once thought that the ____ karyotype was related to criminal disposition because it led to aggressive behavior due to excessive "maleness".

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Polyploid plants found in nature usually have even numbers of chromosomes because organisms having odd numbers