A Science Teacher Is Attempting to Convince Her Class That

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Essay

A science teacher is attempting to convince her class that alcoholism,which has long been known to be a disease of polygenic inheritance,really is partially genetically determined.You are asked to assist in the design of an experiment that will help show eighth graders genetic transmission of differences in alcohol drinking.You have been given outbred rats as your experimental model.Set up a quantitative experiment that would test the hypothesis that alcoholism,as determined by amount of alcohol drunk,is a quantitative trait.

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