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#Question id: 5451

High heritability is best demonstrated in which of the following situations?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

  1. Within a wild population of clover plants, there is a very low amount of variation in the number of leaves per stem.

  2. When studying obesity in a human population, there tends to be less variation within families than across the entire population.

  3. in a study of adopted children, the children's height is much more similar to that of their biological parents than their adoptive parents.

  4. The DNR maintains records of deer shot each hunting season. In drought years, the average weight is much lower than in years of sufficient rain.

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#Question id: 5440

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Human height is control by 5 pair of polygene . A pure line dominant human has height of 100 cm while pure line of recessive human has 20 cm. What will be average height of human with genotype aabbCCDDEe?
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#Question id: 5441

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Two pure line of corn have mean cob length of 15 cm and 5 cm, respectively. 6 polygenes involved in this trait exhibit additive gene action. Crossing these two lines is expected to produce a progeny population with mean cob length of
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#Question id: 5443

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Two varieties of maize averaging 25 and 125 inches in height, respectively, are crossed. The F1 progeny is quite uniform averaging 75 inches in height. Plant height is control by 3 QTL, what is the probability of plant with 25 inch height in F2 generation?
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#Question id: 5444

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Which one of the following statements is INCORRECT?
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#Question id: 5445

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

A plant height in Maize is control by 3 pair of polygene .Two varieties of maize averaging 120 and 60 inches in height, respectively, are crossed. The F1 progeny is quite uniform averaging 90 inches in height. What is percent of F2 progeny that is resemble with either 120 cm or 60 cm height?
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#Question id: 5447

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Hydrangea plants of the same genotype are planted in a large flower garden. Some of the plants produce blue flowers and others pink flowers. This can be best explained by which of the following?