What equation is used in DNA profiling to calculate the frequency of a genotype of an STR in a population?

The diversity of offspring resulting from sex with _______ is a female’s insurance policy for protecting her young from fast-evolving predators and parasites.

If you were evolve a virtual creature to jump as high as possible, Let’s assume your creature has muscles, joints, nerves, and sensors. Explain how you would do it.

DNA profilers search for intergenic regions of the genome that vary in the number of tandem repeats in a population. What kind of tandem repeats does the FBI use in their standard DNA profile?

Natural selection leads to a shift in bacterial populations towards those with resistance traits, making infections harder to treat.

The American Chestnut Foundation was founded in 1983. They soon began using __________ to create an American chestnut resistant to the chestnut blight. They first bred the American chestnut with a Chinese chestnut. The offspring were 50% American chestnut and 50% Chinese chestnut. The next step was to backcross the offspring with American chestnut for several generations until the only remnant of the Chinese chestnut in the plant is blight resistance.

This is a pedigree of a family with Hemophilia B. What is the genotype of Individual 12?

What is the genotype of a Hemophilia B carrier?

As a species, asexual New Mexico Whiptail lizards appear to thrive in nature without males.

The typical STR used in DNA profiling has nine or more different alleles that can be detected.