You have self-fertilized a plant with round seeds that is heterozygous, and you want to determine what proportion of the offspring will be not only dominant, but also true-breeding

Which of the rules of probability can be used to calculate the probability of obtaining a particular outcome when specific information about that outcome modifies the probability calculation?


conditional probability

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If a pea plant strain is true-breeding for a particular trait, then:

A. crosses between two true-breeding plants with the same trait will have offspring identical to the parents. B. it will be homozygous for all genes. C. it must be a recessive trait. D. it is not useful for studying inheritance. E. it only self-fertilizes.

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All of the body systems in humans are the same in males and females.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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For a gene with two alternative alleles, B and b, the term q2 in the Hardy-Weinberg equation represents

A. the frequency of the B allele. B. the frequency of the Bb genotype. C. the total number of individuals in the population. D. the frequency of the bb genotype. E. the total number of alleles for that gene in the population.

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According to the Linnaean system of classification, the organism Acetabularia mediterranea is most closely related to

A. Mediterranea crassa. B. Acetabularia crenulata. C. Mediterranea crenulata. D. Crenulata acetabularia.

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