What is the Lod score?
What will be an ideal response?
The ratio of the two likelihoods described in answer 4 above gives the "odds" of genetic linkage, and the Logarithm of the odds ratio generates the Lod score, a statistical value representing the probability of genetic linkage between two genes. A Lod score is a statistic that can attain significance favoring genetic linkage if the probability of genetic linkage is sufficiently greater than the probability of independent assortment, or significance against genetic linkage if the probability of independent assortment is sufficiently greater than the linkage probability. Lod scores can be interpreted for individual families, or they can be added together for as many families as are analyzed.
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a. anthophyta only
b. gymnosperms only
c. ginkophyta only
d. coniferophyta only
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a. true b. false