Which of the Following Statements Is Accurate Regarding Antagonistic Pleiotropy

question 24

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is accurate regarding antagonistic pleiotropy?

• A) The net fitness effect of an allele experiencing antagonistic pleiotropy may depend on the environment.
• B) Alleles experiencing antagonistic pleiotropy should always be strongly selected against.
• C) Antagonistic pleiotropy results when a trait is influenced by more than one gene.
• D) none of the above

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Significance Level

The threshold below which the p-value must fall for the null hypothesis to be rejected in statistical testing.

Sample Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a sample dataset around its mean.

Sample Mean

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Standard Deviation

A quantification of the level of diversity or variability in a collection of values, demonstrating how much the values differ from their average.