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1. The agouti locus in mice has three alleles: a is recessive and confers a black coat, A is dominant to a and confers an agouti coat, and AY is dominant to both and confers a yellow coat. AY is also a recessive lethal.  In addition, the independently assorting c allele is recessive (to C) and prevents the mice from making any fur pigments at all, […]

1.All business organizations run a combination of system, general purpose, and application specific software. List two example of each of these three types of software that one might reasonably find deployed at Progressive insurance and briefly explain the role of that product in enabling Progressive’s business. Use a list to […]

In peas, a recessive trait causes the curling of leaves. A crossinvolving a plant with yellow pods and curling leaves wasmade to a wild-type plant with green pods and normal leaves. The F1plants were testcrossed and the following progeny obtained: 117 green pods, normal leaves115 yellow pods, curling leaves78 green […]

When a population of cells is examined with a microscope, thepercentage of the cells in the M phase is called the mitotic index. The greater the proportion ofcells that are dividing, the higher the mitotic index. In a particular study, cells from a cell cultureare spread on a slide, preserved […]