Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 21, Problem 33P
If you go back 40 generations into your biological ancestry:
| a. | How many ancestors are you predicted to have? |
| b. | How could you reconcile that prediction with the fact that the world’s population of humans is now roughly 7 billion people? |
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