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GENETICS CHAPTER 18 FORENSIC AND ANCESTRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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GENETICS CHAPTER 18 FORENSIC ANDANCESTRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
1. markers at several sites in the genome are considered at the same time
2. the frequencies of markers in specific population must be known
3. the product rule is applied to determine the likelihood of the set of variants in the population -
ANSWER Which conditions must be met in order to identify individuals based on variation in genetic
marker sequences?
segregation - ANSWER Copy numbers of alleles of the children in the next generation are distributed
according to Mendel's law of _____.
markers; at the same time - ANSWER Assessing variation in genetic marker DNA sequences can be used
to identify individuals if ______ at several sites in the genome are considered ______.
mitochondrial - ANSWER If the DNA is so degraded that even STRs are destroyed,_______ Dna is used
instead
true - ANSWER True or false: Even extremely small forensic samples can yield mitochondrial DNA.
multiplication - ANSWER the ____ rule of probability is used to calculate the likelihood that someone
other than the suspect in a forensic case may have left the crime scene sample.
1. the peak patterns of the electropherograms indicate whether an individual is a homozygote or a
heterozygote for each repeat
2. genotype frequencies are calculated using parts of the hardy-weinberg equation
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