What is the average survival rate for the Minotaur when the breeding season starts? A.0.42 B.0.54 C.0.66 D.0.76 E.0.83 Following up on Question 6, assuming random mating, what would be the percentage of long-horned baby Minotaur who are heterozygous at the H locus? A.23.5% B.25.0% C.50.0% D.51.5% E.68.0% Minotaur is only found in the Labyrinth on the island of Crete. The area is famous for its annualspectacle of "Minotaur run," where herds of Minotaur rush out of the Labyrinth to reach theirbreeding grounds on the beautiful Aegean seashore. A group of Olympianscientists discovered that the horn size of the Minotaur is controlled by asingle locus H. A previous population genetic survey showed that there areonly two allele in this locus, H1 and H2. Furthermore, it was found that theH2 allele is recessive. Several studies showed that the long-hornedindividuals (H,H1 and HH2) tend to be tangled up along the way duringthe annual migration out of the Labyrinth, such that only 80% of the long-horned individuals can make it out of the Labyrinth alive. Once outside theLabyrinth, the short-horned individuals tend to be less successful at findingfood, thus 60% would die from starvation before the beginning of the breedingseason. Initially, the annual migration of Minotaur started out with 1,000 individuals (150 H,H1,500 H¡H2, and 350 H2H2) inside the Labyrinth.99

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What is the average survival rate for the Minotaur when the breeding season starts?

	A.	0.42
	B.	0.54
	C.	0.66
	D.	0.76
	E.	0.83

Following up on Question 6, assuming random mating, what would be the percentage of long-horned baby Minotaur who are heterozygous at the H locus?

A.

23.5%

B.

25.0%

C.

50.0%

D.

51.5%

E.

68.0%

Minotaur is only found in the Labyrinth on the island of Crete. The area is famous for its annual
spectacle of "Minotaur run," where herds of Minotaur rush out of the Labyrinth to reach their
breeding grounds on the beautiful Aegean seashore. A group of Olympian
scientists discovered that the horn size of the Minotaur is controlled by a
single locus H. A previous population genetic survey showed that there are
only two allele in this locus, H1 and H2. Furthermore, it was found that the
H2 allele is recessive. Several studies showed that the long-horned
individuals (H,H1 and HH2) tend to be tangled up along the way during
the annual migration out of the Labyrinth, such that only 80% of the long-
horned individuals can make it out of the Labyrinth alive. Once outside the
Labyrinth, the short-horned individuals tend to be less successful at finding
food, thus 60% would die from starvation before the beginning of the breeding
season. Initially, the annual migration of Minotaur started out with 1,000 individuals (150 H,H1,
500 H¡H2, and 350 H2H2) inside the Labyrinth.
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