If people with a particular phenotype brought about by a dominant allele had only half the children, on average, than people without the trait, we would say these people had a ________ of 0.5.

A. biased fitness
B. relative fitness
C. phenotype disadvantage
D. genotype disadvantage


B. relative fitness

Anthropology & Archaeology

You might also like to view...

Through music, Bert, Ernie, and Kermit of Sesame Street

a. entertain the bored children of a complex society. b. are not part of an aesthetic process. c. are forms of art that educate children about conflict resolution and race relations. d. are forms of representational art that are produced for a single class segment in society. e. are types of plastic art because they are interpreted differently by everyone who sees them.

Anthropology & Archaeology

When countries react to a real or perceived threat of foreign cultural dominance by purging foreign words from the language, it is an example of:

a. cultural conservatism. b. linguistic ethnocentrism. c. linguistic parochialism. d. linguistic nationalism. e. ethnolinguistics.

Anthropology & Archaeology

Higher castes in India see the caste system as exploitative because they have to provide welfare for the lower castes

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Anthropology & Archaeology

An increase in cell size is termed:

A. hyperplasia B. hypertrophy C. accretion D. ontogeny

Anthropology & Archaeology