Choose one of the basic patterns of Mendelian inheritance and draw and explain a three-generation family pedigree
illustrating that pattern.What will be an ideal response?
This is a pedigree for a rare autosomal recessive trait. In this pedigree, most affected
individuals have normal parents, and there is a 75% chance that a child will be unaffected
and a 25% chance that a child of heterozygotes will be affected. Sexes are affected in roughly
equal numbers.
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The regulation of water balance, milk release, and uterine contractions during childbirth are mediated by the ____
gland.
a. parathyroid b. pineal c. anterior pituitary d. posterior thyroid e. posterior pituitary
Why might secondary production be lower in grasslands than in forests?
A) because average temperatures are lower B) because average water availability is higher C) because primary production is lower D) because there is a higher biomass of animals in grasslands
In what ways are eukaryotic transcription factors thought to function?
What will be an ideal response?
You have two true-breeding rose bushes, one with red flowers and one with white flowers. A cross between these two roses yields a bush with white flowers that have red splotches. What condition does this demonstrate?
a) environmental effects b) incomplete dominance c) codominance d) monohybrid inheritance e) polygenetic inheritance