The Similarity of Genetic Traits Carried by Two Individuals Who

question 39

Multiple Choice

The similarity of genetic traits carried by two individuals who are dizygotic twins would be most comparable to which of the following pairs of individuals?

• A) their mother and father
• B) any two siblings, regardless of gender
• C) two clones of the same person
• D) two unrelated individuals

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Definitions:

Alternative Hypothesis

An alternative hypothesis is a statement in hypothesis testing that is directly tested and proposes a statistically significant difference between data sets.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information involved in estimating a parameter or calculating a statistic, often related to the sample size.

Interaction Effects

Occur when the effect of one independent variable on a dependent variable changes depending on the level of another independent variable.

Main Effects

The direct, independent impacts of individual independent variables on a dependent variable in the context of factorial designs.