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Two green Olephants mate. They are hybrids. Olephant color displays incomplete dominanceDominant allele = blue pigment traitRecessive allele – yellow pigment traitWhat percent of their offspring will be blue?

The strands that makeup DNA are antiparallel. This means that:

Which of the following statements is NOT true of nondisjunction:

Mendel’s “hereditary factors” are known today as ____________. 

Mendel developed a hypothesis to explain the 3:1 inheritance pattern he observed in F2 offspring. This hypothesis includes:

A woman is phenotypically normal but had a brother who had an autosomal recessive disorder that resulted in death during infancy. What is the probability that this woman is a carrier for the disorder that afflicted her brother? 

Which of the following molecular models describes the structure of the DNA molecule?

The function of tRNA is:

If a woman is a carrier for an X-linked recessive disorder and mates with a normal, unaffected male, what is the probability her grandson has the disorder? Assume she has a normal son and a daughter, and they both have homozygous normal partners. 

Which of the following statements is correct in comparing sexual and asexual reproduction