One process that is considered very important to the health of coral reef ecosystems (and that may be currently under stress) is their connectedness to surrounding systems. What is meant by the concept of connectedness and by what processes are coral reefs “connected” to other surrounding systems? Your response should […]

Is bractyldactly a sex linked or autosomal disease? a) A woman who is colour blind and has bractyldactly marries aman who is not colourblind and does not have bractyldactly. If thecharacteristic bractyldactly is dominant to the recessive conditionand you know thta the woman’s mother did not have this characteristic, determine […]

For the purpose of thinking about the genetics of the cross you’ve made, call the two microsatellite markers A and B. You can then designate the alleles A1, A2, A3, and A4 for the A allele and B1 through B6 for the B marker. In this cross, you are mating […]

In yeast, one haploid strain is unable to synthesize uracil but able to synthesize leucine, while another haploid strain is able to synthesize uracil but not leucine. You think that the ability to synthesize uracil and leucine has a genetic basis. Your goal is to determine the genotypes of the […]