Repair of heteroduplex regions formed during recombination can result in a 1:3 or 3:1 segregation of parental alleles, which indicates that ________ has occurred.

A) allelic exchange
B) gene conversion
C) crossing over
D) recombination
E) DNA replication


B) gene conversion

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A. The Pacific Northwest B. Boston and Baltimore C. California D. Minneapolis, Minnesota E. British Columbia

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The discovery that viruses act more like a chemical than an organism came from work with the

A. tobacco mosaic virus. B. HIV virus. C. Vibrio cholerae virus. D. SARS virus.

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When considering the following figure, the top panel refers to _______ while the bottom panel refers to ________

a. population-level thinking, individual-level thinking b. individual-level thinking, population-level thinking c. Yule-thinking, Mendel-thinking d. evolutionary thinking, ecological thinking e. geographic thinking, spatial thinking

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