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Biologists performed an experiment with flies to examine the effects of population size on the maintenance of genetic variation  and  on  egg-to-adult survival.  From  a  large  source  population, they  randomly  assigned  eggs  to  three experimental  populations  of  size  N,  equal  to  20,  60,  and0100.  For  later  generations,  they  collected  N  eggs  from each  population  and  moved  them  into  identical  vials  that  co0ntained  f2re0sh  me4d0ium.  Th6e0y  coun8te0d  the  number  of adult flies that emerged and used tissue samples from the adults for genetic analyses. Genetic variation was measured by  scoring  alleles  at  several  polymorphic  loci  and  expressed  as  the  average  number  of  alleles  at  those  loci.  The results are summarized in Figure 1 and Figure 2 below.


Which process best explains the dynamics of genetic variation observed in this experiment? 

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. Genetic drift 
  2. Linkage disequilibrium
  3. Mutation 
  4. Segregation distortion

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Which of the following above is most probable mode of inheritance?

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

The following typical pedigree illustrates the key point that affected children are born to unaffected parents: Which of the following is correct statement?

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

The inheritance of a given disorder is recorded in small families shown below: Based on the above limited information, which one of the following inheritance pattern best explains the observations?

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

A Southern blot using a probe that binds to the region spanning the mutation causing albinism detects one DNA fragment in homozygous normal individuals (A/A) and two fragments in albino individuals (a/a). Following banding pattern of three offspring of parents? Which of the following correct regarding parents?

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#Question id: 5357

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

This pedigree shows the inheritance of a recessive trait in humans. Individuals that have the trait are homozygous for a recessive allele a. If H and I, who happen to be first cousins, marry and have a child, what is the chance that this child will have the recessive trait?

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#Question id: 5356

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

In the following pedigree, individuals with shaded circle or shaded square show presence of a recessive autosomal trait. The calculated risk of occurrence of this trait for III-I is