A steam steriliser is used to sterilise liquid medium for fermentation. The initial concentration of contaminating organisms is 10⁸ per litre. For design purposes, the final acceptable level of contamination is usually taken to be 10^-3cells; this corresponds to a risk that one batch in a thousand will remain contaminated even after the sterilisation process is complete. For how long should 1 m³ medium be treated if the temperature is 80⁰C ________________.10^6

 To be safe, assume that the contaminants present are spores of Bacillus stearothermophilus, one of the most heat-resistant microorganisms known. For these spores the activation energy for thermal death is 283 kJ gmo1^-1 and the Arrhenius constant is 10^36.2 s^-1

#Question id: 3335

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Consider hypothetical populations that have arisen from the mixing of migrants from different sources: f(AA)- 0.30   f(Aa)- 0.0     f(aa)- 0.70 After one generation of random mating within population, what will be genotypic frequencies?

#Question id: 3336

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

There are 4 alleles at a given locus in a diploid population and all alleles are equal abundant. What is the proportion of all homozygotes in the population?

#Question id: 3337

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Small populations are threatened by a least loss of genetic variability is due to

#Question id: 3338

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

If the expected frequency of heterozygotes in a population (based on the Hardy–Weinberg law) is 0.4, but the observed frequency is 0.2, what is the inbreeding coefficient?

#Question id: 3339

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

In a plant species, flower color locus either homozygous or heterozygous with genotype RR-red, Rr- pink and rr- white. The Proportional of pink flower in generation 0 is .50.  What is the level of remaining pink flower in a third generation of repeated selfing? 

#Question id: 3340

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Which of the following statements is NOT correct regarding effect of genetic drift?