Here are the answers for Biology Unit 8 Lesson 9 Organizing Data About Expressed Traits -
1. In a normal distribution, the number of organisms exhibiting a phenotype variant near the lowest value is
Answer - less than the number exhibiting a variant near the middle value.
2. Kamar wants to know his mother's blood type. Kamar knows that his blood type is AB and his father’s blood type is heterozygous A. What can Kamar assume about his mother’s blood type?
Answer - Kamar’s mother must be either AB or B because blood types AB is considered codominant
3. A statistician collects height data in inches for a school district. Which sample is most likely to produce a normal distribution?
Answer - Grades 10-12
4. The different variants of a trait available to a gene are called
Answer - Alleles
5. A wolf populations’ undercoat thickness follows a normal distribution. Suppose winters grow colder due to climate change accelerating because of human interference.
Answer - The distribution of undercoat thickness will shift toward a thicker coat.
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