exam 5 codon

Question 1

female and male chromosomes

Answer 1

female: XX
male: XY

Question 2

polygenic trait

Answer 2

trait that shows continuous variation, normally distributed, due to the involvement of products from many different genes

Question 3

genetic locus

Answer 3

physical location of a gene on a chromosome

Question 4

genome

Answer 4

all the DNA, and all the genes, in an individual of a species

Question 5

null model

Answer 5

model predicting the data you should expect to see if a process is not working

Question 6

hardy-Weinberg principle

Answer 6

null model that states if no selection, drift, gene flow, or mutation occur, and mating is random, the allele frequencies wont change from one generation to the next

Question 7

assortative mating

Answer 7

mate choices based on similarities or dissimilarities in a phenotype

Question 8

gene pool

Answer 8

concept used in predicting the results from random mating among all individuals in a population

Question 9

traits with a continuous variation have ___ inheritance. Graphed the _____ of these traits follows a ____ curve

Answer 9

polygenic
phenotypic distribution
normally distributed