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Select the best answer. What is the position of a gene or mutation on a chromosome?

Select the best answer. Why are males more likely to be affected by X-linked recessive diseases than females? Select the best answer.

Chi-Squared = (O – E)2/E You cross a male with purple eyes with a homozygous female wilt type through the F2 generation and yield these results: Purple Eyes: 228 Wild Type: 714 What is the Chi-Squared Value?  Round to two decimals.

Select the best answer. Mendels Law of Segregation states: 

Select the best answer.  What is the process of determining differences in the genetic make-up of an individual by examining the individual’s DNA sequence using biological assays and comparing it to another individual’s sequence or a reference sequence?

Select the best answer. What is the name of the file format we used in lab for sequence data?

Select the best answer. The National Institute of Health created a  __________________________ repository called GenBank.

Select the best answer. The manner in which a genetic trait or disorder is passed from one generation to the next is referred to as ________________________.

Select the best answer. You are a scientist who has been sent to perform genetic sequence analysis on newly discovered species in the ocean: Blorbalis fasicularis, Drosqueezila tiktokius, and Saccroyeezus beeralis. Your lab assistant sequences the DNA and presents you with the following difference matrix: Which species are the most distantly related?  

Select the best answer. If you sequence double-stranded DNA and find that it has 30% adenine, what percentage of cytosine does it have?