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1 / 1 pts Question 1 The main conclusion from East's 1916 experiment with the long-flowered Nicotiana plants was: East concluded that Fisher's (2018) model of quantitative trait variation was correct. Flower tube length is primarily controlled by environmental differences. Segregation at one or two genetic loci could not account for the pattern of variation observed in the F2 generation, where parental phenotypes were not recovered. This trait is under selection 1 / 1 pts Question 2 Which ONE of the following is unlikely to be true for a trait that shows a continuous distribution of trait values (for example a normal distribution)? The trait is controlled by many loci, and is NOT influenced by the environment The trait is controlled by few loci, and is influenced by the environment The trait is controlled by few loci, and is NOT influenced by the environment The trait is controlled by many loci, and is influenced by the environment
1 / 1 pts Question 3 Which of the following statements about the breeding value is not true The breeding value provides a measure of an individual's ability to contribute to increasing the mean trait value of the next generation The breeding value of an individual will be zero if the individual is homozygous at all of the loci that contribute to determining the phenotype The heritability (narrow sense) of a trait is equivalent to the variance in breeding values of individuals in the population The breeding value of an individual is analogous to the average effect of alleles on the phenotype, across all of the loci that contribute to that phenotype 1 / 1 pts Question 4 What does it mean when we say that a trait is heritable in a given population? (select all that apply) It means that there is additive genetic variance for this trait in this population. It means that offspring will get their alleles from their parents
It means that a trait is not influenced by the environment. It means that offspring will tend to have traits more like their parents than like a random individual from the population 3 / 4 pts Question 5 Answer 1: Answer 2: Answer 3: Partial Partial Fishing appears to have caused selection for smaller size at first reproduction in Atlantic cod. Cod now reproduce at an average body size of 28.4 cm, when historical records from the 1940s indicate an average size at first reproduction of 41.7 cm. Over the 30 or so generations separating these two samples, the change in the mean body size at first reproduction represents: [ Select ] . Assuming 30 generations have passed, then the per-generation estimate of this variable is [ Select ] cm. If the heritability of this trait is 0.22, then the we can estimate the per- generation selection differential using the breeder's equation, and obtain: [ Select ] cm. The response to selection -0.44 selection differential
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