You Are Studying the Effect of Directional Selection on Body

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You are studying the effect of directional selection on body height in three populations (a, b, and c) below. (a) What is the selection differential? Show your calculation.
(b) Which population has the highest narrow sense heritability for height? Explain your answer.
(c) If you examined the offspring in the next generation in each population, which population would have the highest mean height? Why?

Calculate phenotypic and genotypic ratios in offspring resulting from different types of genetic crosses.

Identify the role of environmental factors in the expression of phenotypes.

Distinguish between incomplete dominance, codominance, epistasis, and polygenic inheritance.

Analyze the inheritance patterns of multiple alleles and their impact on phenotypes such as blood types.

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