Jennifer Works at the Local Animal Shelter

question 64

Essay

Jennifer works at the local animal shelter. Her boss wants her to use the shelter's database of animals to categorize the total number of cats, dogs, and other types of animals brought into the shelter this year. Her boss wants these categories: cats, dogs, and other. What kind of graph would be the best choice? Why?

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Definitions:

Pleiotropic Gene

A single gene that influences multiple phenotypic traits, demonstrating the complexity of gene expression on phenotype.

Multiple Effects

The outcome or consequences that arise from a single cause, which can impact different systems or functions within an organism or environment.

Epistatic Gene

A gene that can interfere with the expression of other genes, altering the phenotypic outcome and creating variations in traits.

Dominant

Referring to an allele or a gene that expresses its phenotype even in the presence of a recessive allele of the same gene.