How Can Epistatic Interactions Be Used to Order Genes in a Pathway

question 15

Multiple Choice

How can epistatic interactions be used to order genes in a pathway?

• A)Organisms that are homozygous recessive for two different genes will have the phenotype of an organism that is homozygous recessive for the gene that is first in the pathway.
• B)Organisms that are homozygous recessive for two different genes will have the phenotype of an organism that is homozygous recessive for the gene that is last in the pathway.
• C)Organisms that are homozygous dominant for two different genes will have the phenotype of an organism that is homozygous dominant for the gene that is first in the pathway.
• D)Organisms that are heterozygous for two different genes will have the phenotype of an organism that is homozygous recessive for the gene that is first in the pathway.

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Definitions:

Distribution

Describes how the values of a dataset or population are spread or dispersed.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points relative to its mean, indicating how much the values in the data set vary from the average.

Normally Distributed

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Top 10%

A term used to denote the upper 10 percentile of a data set or distribution, representing values higher than 90% of the others.