Continuous variation for height FIGURE 1-6 Students at the Connecticut Agriculture College in 1914 show a range of heights. Ronald Fisher proposed that continuously variable traits like human height are controlled by multiple Mendelian genes. [A. F. Blakeslee, "Corn and Men," Journal of Heredity 5, 11, 4:10 4:11 5:0 5:1 5:2 5:3 5:4 5:5 5:6 5:7 5:8 5:9 5:10 5:11 6:0 6:1 6:2 1914, 511-518.]
Continuous variation for height FIGURE 1-6 Students at the Connecticut Agriculture College in 1914 show a range of heights. Ronald Fisher proposed that continuously variable traits like human height are controlled by multiple Mendelian genes. [A. F. Blakeslee, "Corn and Men," Journal of Heredity 5, 11, 4:10 4:11 5:0 5:1 5:2 5:3 5:4 5:5 5:6 5:7 5:8 5:9 5:10 5:11 6:0 6:1 6:2 1914, 511-518.]
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In Figure 1-6, the students have 1 of 15 different heights,plus there are two height classes (4′
11″ and 5′ 0
″) for
which there are no observed students. That is a total of
17 height classes. If a single Mendelian gene can account for only two classes of a trait (such as purple or
white flowers), how many Mendelian genes would be
minimally required to explain the observation of 17
height classes?
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