Question: The following effective population sizes were recorded for a population over 5 generations; 100, 120, 17, 40, 88. Estimate the harmonic mean estimate of effective population size for this population?Question: Imagine you have two populations of size N = 4 and N = 20. Allele frequencies in each population are as […]

Assume you are studying 3 traits in tropical fish: black and white striped pattern is completely dominant to solid color. For eye color, brown eyes are dominant to hazel eyes. In fins, ventral fin is dominant to no fin. A cross is performed between a homozygous solid color, brown eye, ventral fin female […]

Q. Mr. Spock’s father came from the plant Vulcan and his mother was from planet Earth. A Vulcan has pointy ears and a heart on the right side of the body. Earthlings have round ears and a heart on the left side of the body. Spock has decided to follow […]

A surprising result cam in an experiment where two different varietys of pure breeding white-flowered plants were crossed. All of the F1 plants had purple flowers, not white. The F1 offspring self fertilized and the F2 generation resulted in 9 purple flowers: 7 white. (show work as needed) a. How […]