Before the Time of Gregor Mendel and Genetics, Sexual Reproduction

question 12

Multiple Choice

Before the time of Gregor Mendel and genetics, sexual reproduction was thought to produce a blending or equal mixing of the parents' traits. Today we know that

• A) offspring will be identical to one another and demonstrate traits exactly halfway between the parents' traits.
• B) offspring can vary from receiving over 99% of one parent's genes to receiving over 99% of the other parent's genes.
• C) offspring inherit essentially 50% of their genes from each parent, but two sibling offspring may share with each other from zero to 23 chromosomes in common from each parent, and further variation may occur due to crossing-over.
• D) offspring inherit copies of the same 23 pair of chromosomes from each of their parents but the rate of crossing-over makes them very dissimilar.
• E) there is one chance in 23 of getting identical sets of chromosomes from one parent, times two because there are two parents; therefore, two siblings out of every 46 are really identical except for crossing-over.

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