In a plant, height is control by three quantitative trait loci.  Each dominant additive allele is contributing 3 cm height in plant. Maximum expected plant height is 20 cm. What is minimum expected height? 

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Neo-Lamarckism includes several theories based on the old idea of inheritance of modifications acquired during an organism’s lifetime. In a famous experiment done by,

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Neutral theory of molecular evolution of is given by,

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The variation that arises is directed toward fixed goals, so that a species evolves in a predetermined direction by some kind of internal drive, without the aid of natural selection. This hypothesis is known as,

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Lamarck argued that species differ from one another because they have different needs, and so use certain of their organs and appendages. This hypothesis is known as?

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The geologists ________ expounded the principle of uniformitarianism, holding that the same processes operated in the past as in the present and that the data of geology should therefore be explained by causes that we can now observe.

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Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778), who established the framework of modern taxonomy in his Systema Naturae (1735), won worldwide fame for his exhaustive classification of plants and animals, undertaken in the hope of discovering the pattern of the creation. Linnaeus classified,