Concepts of Genetics (11th Edition)
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780321948915
Author: William S. Klug, Michael R. Cummings, Charlotte A. Spencer, Michael A. Palladino
Publisher: PEARSON
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Concepts of Genetics (11th Edition)
Ch. 25 - Prob. 1NSTCh. 25 - Prob. 2NSTCh. 25 - If the albino phenotype occurs in 1/10,000...Ch. 25 - A prospective groom, who is unaffected, has a...Ch. 25 - Prob. 1CSCh. 25 - Prob. 2CSCh. 25 - Prob. 3CSCh. 25 - HOW DO WE KNOW? Population geneticists study...Ch. 25 - CONCEPT QUESTION Read the Chapter Concepts list on...Ch. 25 - Price et al. [(1999).J. Bacteriol181:2358-2362)...
Ch. 25 - The genetic difference between two Drosophila...Ch. 25 - The use of nucleotide sequence data to measure...Ch. 25 - The ability to taste the compound PTC is...Ch. 25 - Prob. 7PDQCh. 25 - What must be assumed in order to validate the...Ch. 25 - In a population where only the total number of...Ch. 25 - Determine whether the following two sets of data...Ch. 25 - If 4 percent of a population in equilibrium...Ch. 25 - Consider a population in which the frequency of...Ch. 25 - If the initial allele frequencies are p = 0.5 and...Ch. 25 - Under what circumstances might a lethal dominant...Ch. 25 - Assume that a recessive autosomal disorder occurs...Ch. 25 - One of the first Mendelian traits identified in...Ch. 25 - Describe how populations with substantial genetic...Ch. 25 - Achondroplasia is a dominant trait that causes a...Ch. 25 - Prob. 19PDQCh. 25 - Prob. 20PDQCh. 25 - A botanist studying water lilies in an isolated...Ch. 25 - A farmer plants transgenic Bt corn that is...Ch. 25 - In an isolated population of 50 desert bighorn...Ch. 25 - To increase genetic diversity in the bighorn sheep...Ch. 25 - What genetic changes take place during speciation?Ch. 25 - Some critics have warned that the use of gene...Ch. 25 - A form of dwarfism known as Ellisvan Creveld...Ch. 25 - Prob. 28ESPCh. 25 - What are the two groups of reproductive isolating...Ch. 25 - The original source of new alleles, upon which...Ch. 25 - A number of comparisons of nucleotide sequences...Ch. 25 - Shown below are two homologous lengths of the...Ch. 25 - Recent reconstructions of evolutionary history are...Ch. 25 - Prob. 34ESP
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