During ______________ the dyads of homologous chromosomes wrap around each other forming a tetrad.

The New Mexico whiptail lizard has a unique feature. The entire species is:

The diversity of offspring resulting from sex with _______ is a female’s insurance policy for protecting her young from fast-evolving predators and parasites.

DNA profilers search for intergenic regions of the genome that vary in the number of tandem repeats in a population. What kind of tandem repeats does the FBI use in their standard DNA profile?

The typical frequency of a genotype for an STR in the population is less than 10 percent.

Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, warned about the development of antibiotic resistance due to:

This is a pedigree of a family with Hemophilia B. What is the genotype of individual 2?

Currently the FBI tests __________ different STRs, with repeats of 4 to 5 nucleotides, plus a sex marker.

What is the inheritance pattern of Hemophilia B?

STRs used in DNA profiling are repeats of: