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#Question id: 1440


Which of the following is NOT evidence that smoking causes lung cancer?

#Life Sciences
  1. Epidemiological rates of lung cancer dramatically increased after more people started to smoke.

  2. Exposure of lung cells to the active carcinogen found in cigarettes causes mutations in p53.

  3. Mutations in p53 are found in the same codons in patients with lung cancer who smoke as in cultured cells treated with benzo(a)pyrene.

  4. Epidemiological rates of lung cancer in women increased years after the rates in men increased.

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#Question id: 4742

#Applied Microbiology

In birds, sex is determined by a ZW chromosome scheme. Males are ZZ and females are ZW. A recessive lethal allele that causes death of the embryo is sometimes present on the Z chromosome in pigeons. What would be the sex ratio in the offspring of a cross between a male that is heterozygous for the lethal allele and a normal female?

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#Question id: 4744

#Applied Microbiology

Assume that long ear lobes in humans are an autosomal dominant trait that exhibits 50% penetrance. A person who is heterozygous for long ear lobes mates with a person who is homozygous for normal ear lobes. What is the probability that their first child will have long ear lobes.

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#Question id: 4745

#Applied Microbiology

In some goats, the presence of horns is produced by an autosomal gene that is dominant in males and recessive in females. A horned female is crossed with a hornless male. The F1 offspring are intercrossed to produce the F2. What proportion of the F2 offspring will have horns?

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#Question id: 4748

#Applied Microbiology

Eye color in Drosophila present on X chromosome, Red eye color is dominant over white eye color. There is non disjunction in Meiosis I in female and normal meiosis in male. Female is white eye color was cross with red eye male. What will be expected phenotype in their progeny?

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#Question id: 4749

#Applied Microbiology

A normal woman, whose father was Hemophilic and color blind is married to a colorblind, nonhemophilic man. What will be probability of colorblind, hemophilic daughter?

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#Question id: 4752

#Applied Microbiology

Red-green color blindness is caused by a sex-linked recessive allele. A color-blind man marries a woman with normal vision whose father was color-blind. What is the probability that they will have a color-blind daughter? What is the probability that their first son will be color-blind respectively?