The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium principle is known as the null hypothesis. List the five assumptions that are required for a population to be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

What will be an ideal response?


no selection, no mutation, no chance events, no migration, and mating occurs randomly

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Roots contain starch-heavy plastids known as

A. chloroplasts. B. plastoplasts. C. chromoplasts. D. statoliths. E. strongoliths.

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Compare and contrast passive and active transport mechanisms, and give an example of each

What will be an ideal response?

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Bioinformatics can be used to scan for short sequences that specify known mRNAs, called _____

A) expressed sequence tags B) multigene families C) proteomes D) short tandem repeats

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In E. coli, genes make up ______ of the DNA.

A) less than 5% B) at least 10% C) at least 50% D) at least 90% E) 100%

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