Assume You Are Studying an Organism in Which Duplications or Deficiencies

question 44

Multiple Choice

Assume you are studying an organism in which duplications or deficiencies in the gametes are not viable.An individual is heterozygous for a paracentric inversion.A four-chromatids double crossover,with one of the two crossovers within the inversion and the other outside of it,would lead to:

• A)four viable gametes,two of them parental and two recombinant.
• B)four viable gametes,two of them with the inversion and two without.
• C)two viable gametes,both recombinant.
• D)two viable gametes,both parental.
• E)zero viable gametes.

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Degrees of Freedom

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Two Tailed Test

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Test-statistic

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Sample Size

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