The normal eye color of Drosophila is red, but strains in which all flies have brown eyes are available. Similarly, wings are normally long, but there are strains with short wings. A female from a pure line with brown eyes and short wings is crossed with a male from a normal pure line. The F1 consists of normal females and short-winged males. An F2 is then produced by intercrossing the F1. Both sexes of F2 flies show phenotypes as follows:

Are genes for eye color and wing length x link or autosome? 

#Question id: 5297

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

In a generalized transduction experiment, phages are collected from an E. coli donor strain of genotype cys+ leu+thr+ and used to transduce a recipient of genotype cys_ leu_ thr_. Initially, the treated recipient population is plated on a minimal medium supplemented with leucine and threonine. Many colonies are obtained. These colonies are then replica-plated onto three different media: What is order of gene?

#Question id: 5298

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Four E. coli strains of genotype a+ b− are labeled 1, 2, 3, and 4. Four strains of genotype a− b+ are labeled 5, 6, 7, and 8. The two genotypes are mixed in all possible combinations and (after incubation) are plated to determine the frequency of a+ b+ recombinants. The following results are obtained, where M = many recombinants, L = low numbers of recombinants, and 0 = no recombinants. On the basis of these results, assign a sex type (either Hfr, F+, or F−) to each strain

#Question id: 5299

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

One particular group of mutant strains specifically required the amino acid arginine to grow, and these arginine auxotrophs formed the basis of their subsequent analysis, given in table 

#Question id: 5300

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

What is metagenomics?

#Question id: 5301

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which of the following processes is an early step in the whole-genome shotgun approach to sequencing?

#Question id: 5302

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Using modern techniques of sequencing by synthesis and the shotgun approach, sequences are assembled into chromosomes by ________.