A researcher studying bacterial toxin predicts that a lysine within the toxin is important for binding it’s target cell.  She used site-directed mutagenesis to change a codon for lysine (AAA) to one for asparagine (AAU).  However, the mutant toxin still binds to its target cell just as well as the wild-type toxin bound and appears to have no other changes. This type of mutation is probably

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

When the genotype is determined by the bi-parental contribution, while the phenotypic effect is determined by the maternal nuclear gene. This effect exhibit on the basis of 

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#Question id: 15006

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Which of the following is not a mechanism for sex determination?

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#Question id: 15007

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

You set up a cross between true breeding wild type male fruit flies and true breeding female flies with a yellow body color. You notice in the F1 generation that half the flies, specifically all the males, have yellow body color while the females are wild type (gray). Which of the following explanations is the most likely?

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#Question id: 15008

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

You have a white eyed, male fruit fly with vestigial wings and a wild type female known to be heterozygous for both traits. You know that vestigial is located on an autosome. What is the probability that a mating between these two flies will generate a female offspring with vestigial wings and white eyes?

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#Question id: 15384

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

A trait that appears to be dominant in one sex but recessive in the other is called:

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#Question id: 15542

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

How would you expect a mutation in a gene encoding a tail fiber protein would affect the plaque phenotype of T4?