Answer – C (Using instruments that have not been calibrated).
When the integrity of an instrument’s calibration has been compromised (usually due to exposure to a shock, vibration, or physical damage), it needs to be calibrated; failure to do this inevitably leads to inaccurate measurement; this is a very common measurement error.
Answer:
The test cross is shown below
T T
t Tt Tt
t Tt Tt
The alleles shown in the vertical side (tt) are recessive and come from the male parent. The alleles TT are dominant and come from the female parent.
For the variety of offsprings to be 100% tall, the recessive parent had to be crossed with a homozygous dominant parent. If the female was heterozygous with which the cross was done,then there would be small tomato plants in the offspring generation.
Answer:
Natural selection
Explanation:
Microevolution refers to changes produced at a lower level than species. In genetics, microevolution is the change in the allelic frequency perceptible in a few generations. Most of these naturally produced changes by mutation, natural selection, genetic flux, genetic drift.
After the drought on Daphne Major, many of the plants producing small-sized seeds decreased their reproductive rate drastically. Consequently, there were almost no seeds available for the medium ground finch to feed. The population of this species also decreased to only a hundred birds over two years. Weather conditions and food availability influenced the survival of the animals.
With time, the finched population increased again, but now, the average size of the beaks was larger. The trait modification was related to the availability of only larger seeds with thick husks.
Eating large seeds with medium or small-sized beaks was impossible, so Finches needed to adapt, developing larger beaks to crack open the husks and eat the contents of the seeds.
<u>Natural selection was responsible for the rapid change in the finches´ population beaks size after the drought. </u>The evolutive force modifies the allelic frequencies, increasing the frequency of genetic variants that expressed the larger beak size and declining the frequency of the alleles that expressed smaller beak size.
