For a trait known to be caused by a mitochondrial gene variant, there may be an occasional female that can transmit different phenotypes to her progeny on an apparently random basis. What situation might you suspect?

#Question id: 5232

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Using molecular clock, it was estimated that two species X and Y must have diverged from their common ancestor about 5 x 10^6 years ago. If the rate of divergence per base pair is estimated to be 0.06 per million years, what is the proportion of base pairs that differ between the two species now?

#Question id: 5225

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Homeotic genes contain a homeobox sequence that is highly conserved among very diverse species. The homeobox is the code for that domain of a protein that binds to DNA in a regulatory developmental process. Which of the following would you then expect?

#Question id: 5221

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Unequal crossing over during Prophase I can result in one sister chromosome with a deletion and another with a duplication. A mutated form of hemoglobin, known as hemoglobin Lepore, is known in the human population. Hemoglobin Lepore has a deleted set of amino acids. If it was caused by unequal crossing over, what would be an expected consequence?

#Question id: 5220

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

In comparing the genomes of humans and those of other higher primates, it is seen that humans have a large metacentric pair we call chromosome #2 among our 46 chromosomes, while the other primates of this group have 48 chromosomes and any pair like the human #2 pair is not present; instead the primate groups each have two pairs of midsize acrocentric chromosomes. What is the most likely explanation?

#Question id: 5217

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Multigene families include two or more nearly identical genes or genes sharing nearly identical sequences. A classical example is the set of genes for globin molecules, including genes on human chromosomes 11 and 16. How might identical and obviously duplicated gene sequences have gotten from one chromosome to another?

#Question id: 5212

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Barbara McClintock, famous for discovering that genes could move within genomes, had her meticulous work ignored for nearly 4 decades, but eventually won the Nobel Prize. Why was her work so distrusted?