A Dairy Farm in Wisconsin Bottles Milk in One Gallon

question 111

True/False

A dairy farm in Wisconsin bottles milk in one gallon containers. At a recent meeting, the production manager asked top management for a new filling machine that he argued would assure that all containers had exactly one gallon of milk. Based on sound statistical principles, the top management group should conclude that the production manager could have merit to his argument.

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Definitions:

Recessive

A genetic term describing an allele that is masked by the presence of a dominant allele in a heterozygous combination.

Hemizygous

Possessing only one allele for a particular locus; a human male is hemizygous for all X-linked genes. Compare with homozygous and heterozygous.

Map Units

Units used in genetics to measure genetic linkage and represent the distance between genes on a chromosome, correlating with the frequency of recombination.

Loci

Specific fixed positions on chromosomes where genes or genetic markers are located.