Please answer the following questions for me:  1 Why is it important to determine whether or not genes that provides insecticide and fungi resistance may be transferred to wild sunflowers? 2. What factors would you measure (response, or dependent varibles)? 3. Fitness can be measured as a seed set (seed production) Why is it important to measure as seed production? 4. Cultivated sunflowers have one stem that produces one single large flower head, while wild flowers have many branches that produce many flowers.  Why is it important to measure branching pattern (number of branches produced by F1 plants, backcrosses and wild type sunflowers? 5.  Why is it important to include blackcrosses in the exeriment?

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Please answer the following questions for me:  1 Why is it important to determine whether or not genes that provides insecticide and fungi resistance may be transferred to wild sunflowers?

2. What factors would you measure (response, or dependent varibles)?

3. Fitness can be measured as a seed set (seed production) Why is it important to measure as seed production?

4. Cultivated sunflowers have one stem that produces one single large flower head, while wild flowers have many branches that produce many flowers.  Why is it important to measure branching pattern (number of branches produced by F1 plants, backcrosses and wild type sunflowers?

5.  Why is it important to include blackcrosses in the exeriment?

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