Suppose a Scientist Engineered the Mass Movement of Transposable Elements

question 158

Multiple Choice

Suppose a scientist engineered the mass movement of transposable elements in the genomes of a group of fruit flies, and then these flies had offspring.A control group of flies that were from the same genetic strain but had not had a mass movement of transposable elements also had offspring.The most likely result would be that the average survival rate of the experimental offspring would be _______ than that of the control offspring, and that the genetic variance in the experimental offspring would be _______ in the control offspring.

• A) higher; greater than
• B) higher; roughly the same as
• C) higher; lower than
• D) lower; higher than
• E) lower; lower than

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