A female fly, full of fertilized eggs, is swept by high winds to an island far out to sea. She is the first fly to arrive on this island, and the only fly to arrive in this way. Thousands of years later, her numerous offspring occupy the island, but none of them resembles her. There are, instead, several species each of which eats only a certain type of food. None of the species can fly, for their flight wings are absent, and their balancing organs (i.e., halteres) are now used in courtship displays. The male members of each species bear modified halteres that are unique in appearance to their species. Females bear vestigial halteres. The ranges of all of the daughter species overlap. If these fly species lost the ability to fly independently of each other as a result of separate mutation events in each lineage, then the flightless condition in these species could be an example of

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

 A heterozygous trihybrid corn plant is testcrossed and the following progeny are produced (all traits are recessive to their wildtype alternative);

          booster                              6

          booster, silkless                  137       

          booster, liguleless, silkless      291

          liguleless                          142

          liguleless, silkless                  3

          silkless                            30

          booster, liguleless                  34

          wildtype                            339

What is the order of the loci on the chromosome? 

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

A pattern of transmission where all offspring have the same phenotype as their mother is consistent with which type of non-Mendelian inheritance?

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Both X-linked genes and extranuclear inheritance produce different results in reciprocal crosses. How can you distinguish between them?

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#Question id: 15412

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

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?

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Paired box 6 (Pax6) transcription factor requires for :

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Which of the following transcription factor activated by BMP4 & FGF8 respectively?