A plant scientist was hired by a greenhouse operator to devise a way to force iris plants to bloom in the short days of winter. Iris normally blooms as a long-day (short-night) plant. Which of the following has the best chance of creating iris blooms in winter?

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#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Which of these was not derived from an ancestral alpha proteobacterium?

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#Question id: 12161

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

If a cross is made between  two plant heights  46cm and 10cm. The f2 Genotype has been shown;

I) AABBCC - 2) AABBCc – 3) AABbCc – 4) AaBbCc–  5) AaBbcc – 6) Aabbcc – 7) aabbcc –

Find out the 

i) phenotypic values of the given character 

ii) determining the no of polygenes involves and 

iii) what will be the no of QTL?

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#Question id: 12162

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Nilsson-Ehle’s cross obtained homozygous varieties of wheat that differed in color, he crossed a variety of wheat that possessed white kernels with a variety that possessed  red kernels and obtained the following results:

The following conclusions are made from the results obtained;

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#Question id: 12163

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

A cross is made between the two pure line homozygous plant their height is 6cm and 2cm. the F1 progeny shows 6 cm height. the variations takes place in F2 progeny , which were made by 

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#Question id: 12164

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

What is the value of broad sense and narrow sense heritability respectively , if the given values of;

A) dominance genetic variance =0.4 , 

B) genic interaction variance =0.3,  

C) additive genetic variance =0.6, 

D) environmental variance=0.8,  

E) genetic−environmental interaction variance=0.3

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#Question id: 12165

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

If the environmental variance increases and all other variance components remain same , then what will be the effect on heritability?