A land developer and several ecologists are discussing how a parcel of private land should be developed with housing while saving 20 hectares as natural habitat. The land developer suggests that the 20 hectares be divided into 20 separate 1-hectare areas, spread out across the area. The ecologists suggest that it would be better to have one intact parcel of 20 hectares on one side of the larger area. What is the significance of these different arrangements of the 20 hectares?

#Question id: 5446

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

In a plant, height is control by three quantitative trait loci.  Each dominant additive allele is contributing 5 cm height in plant. Maximum expected plant height is 50 cm. What is minimum expected height? 

#Question id: 5330

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

First child of both affected couple has normal, an autosomal dominant disorder. What is probability of second child of this couple would have diseased?

#Question id: 5336

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

In a cross between a heterozygous, red-eyed female fruit fly and a white-eyed male, what percent of the male offspring will have white eyes?(white eyes are X-linked, recessive)  

#Question id: 5423

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Maximum height of plant is 200 cm and minimum average height is 80cm. if plant height is controle by 5 pairs of polygene, which of the following plant exhibit average phenotype?

#Question id: 5424

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Imagine that height in corn plants is determined by three loci. The baseline height is 100 cm. Every + allele adds 10cm to the plant’s potential height, every – allele subtracts 10 cm from the plant’s potential height. The shortest possible plant and the tallest possible plant are mated to form an F1, what is the height of the F1?

#Question id: 5425

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Two varieties of maize averaging 50 and 20 inches in height, respectively, are crossed. The F1 progeny is quite uniform averaging 35 inches in height. Out Of the 16 F2 plants, the 5 are 35 inches. What is the probable number of independent segregating polygenes involved in this trait?