You are conducting genetic linkage studies of an autosomal recessive disease whose chromosomal location has not been firmly established. You are focused on two SSR markers that may be linked to each other and to the disease. Here are two families in which some individuals are affected:

 

Calculate LOD scores for linkage at θ= 0.02 between the disease and SSR43 in Family 2.

#Question id: 29078

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

A specific kind of parasitism proposes that  in which cuckoos or cowbirds repeatedly check their host’s nests and destroy all eggs if their owner is not present. If the parasite egg has been removed, they destroy the host’s nest and kill or injure the nestlings, this is an example of____

#Question id: 29079

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

You observed the two species of barnacles, P. aurelia and P. caudatum, occupy upper and lower strata of intertidal rocks, respectively. Only when P. caudatum was removed by you from the lowers strata, P. aurelia could occupy both the upper and lower strata. From the choice given below what would be your inference from these observations.

#Question id: 29080

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Invasive species are less impacted by enemies than native species. An explanation for the better growth and propagation of invasive species in comparison to their native counterparts is provided by which one of the following hypotheses?

#Question id: 29081

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

#Question id: 10701

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

In community, two species A and B were found. A species have an especially large impact on the structure of entire communities because they are highly abundant while B species are not usually abundant in a community however; exert strong control on community structure by their pivotal ecological roles, or niches. Which of the following is naming of species?

#Question id: 10702

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Species A has a large effect on community because of its abundance in community known as