You are an ecologist studying a population ofgerbils that can be found in nature with 3 different colors. Anindividual gerbil can be, dark brown, medium brown, or lightbrown. There are 2 alleles for this gene B and b. Thecolor trait is determined by incomplete dominance. This is a casewhere one allele is not dominant over the other but insteadheterozygous individuals show an intermediate phenotype. In thiscase of incomplete dominance Dark brown individuals are homozygousBB, medium brown individuals are heterozygous Bb, and light brownindividuals are homozygous bb. You spend a night trapping andcatch.
10 Dark brown gerbils
10 Medium brown gerbils
10 Light brown gerbils
What is the gene pool in thispopulation?
What is the gene frequency in thispopulation?
Explain how genetic drift could alter thegene frequency in a population. Use your data from the geneticdrift experiment to support your answer.
You are an ecologist studying a population ofgerbils that can be found in nature with 3 different colors. Anindividual gerbil can be, dark brown, medium brown, or lightbrown. There are 2 alleles for this gene B and b. Thecolor trait is determined by incomplete dominance. This is a casewhere one allele is not dominant over the other but insteadheterozygous individuals show an intermediate phenotype. In thiscase of incomplete dominance Dark brown individuals are homozygousBB, medium brown individuals are heterozygous Bb, and light brownindividuals are homozygous bb. You spend a night trapping andcatch.
10 Dark brown gerbils
10 Medium brown gerbils
10 Light brown gerbils
What is the gene pool in thispopulation?
What is the gene frequency in thispopulation?
Explain how genetic drift could alter thegene frequency in a population. Use your data from the geneticdrift experiment to support your answer.
