You get a job with the Texas Dept. of Agriculture. One day you are called to a cattle ranch that is infested with fire ants and there are hundreds of nest openings per acre. You examine the nests and find 200-300 queens per nest. Based on this information, which can you correctly conclude? a. The population of fire ants on the ranch consists of monogyne colonies that contain queens which are BB at the Gp9 locus. b. The population of fire ants consists of polygyne colonies in which both the workers and the queens are Bb at the Gp9 locus c. The workers are BB at the Gp9 locus, but the queens are Bb. d. The workers are bb at the Gp9 locus, but he queens are BB
Genetic Variation
Genetic variation refers to the variation in the genome sequences between individual organisms of a species. Individual differences or population differences can both be referred to as genetic variations. It is primarily caused by mutation, but other factors such as genetic drift and sexual reproduction also play a major role.
Quantitative Genetics
Quantitative genetics is the part of genetics that deals with the continuous trait, where the expression of various genes influences the phenotypes. Thus genes are expressed together to produce a trait with continuous variability. This is unlike the classical traits or qualitative traits, where each trait is controlled by the expression of a single or very few genes to produce a discontinuous variation.
You get a job with the Texas Dept. of Agriculture. One day you are called to a cattle ranch that is infested with fire ants and there are hundreds of nest openings per acre. You examine the nests and find 200-300 queens per nest. Based on this information, which can you correctly conclude?
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