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Hiking in the deserts of New Mexico you encounter a strangely shaped, entirely smooth metallic rock. Oozing from the rock is a slime mold that you believe to be a new species never before seen (on earth). The mold fluoresces bright pink normally but when transported back to your laboratory […]

A heterozygous brown-eyed human female who is a carrier of color blindness marries a blue-eyed male who is not color-blind. Color blindness is a sex-linked trait. Assume that eye color is an autosomal trait and that brown is dominant over blue. What is the probability that any of the offspring […]

All possible outcomes for a random experiment. For example. If youflip a coin once the sample space is the set {H,T}. Suppose youhave two coins the sample space when both coins are flipped is {HH,HT, TH, TT}. An event is a subset of the sample space. 1.) Suppose you have […]

Q1 A population of birds on an island vary in color. Some have blue wings and some have green. All are doing well until a meteorite hits the island and kills many of the birds. More blue-winged than green-winged birds are killed. Which of the following should we expect if […]