A geneticist is conducting an experiment by making a testcross. She expects the offspring of the testcross to result in a 1:2:1 ratio. She wants to see if her data for the three phenotypic classes could be reasonably assumed to have deviated from the expected values by chance. How many degree(s) of freedom should she use when evaluating the chi-square goodness-of-fit test?

In order to clone adult animals, scientists typically begin with a(n)

One of the purposes of transcription is to produce a sequence of bases that

Cold case files recently began re-investigating an old murder case. the murder took place in the park; a young man, james, was hit over the head with a brick and killed. police suspected the jealous former boyfriend of james' wife, karen. whoever killed james may have washed their hands in a near-by bird bath as detectives found blood in the bird bath. since the murder took place before dna fingerprinting was available, the suspected killer, ronnie, went free. detectives are now reviewing the blood evidence using dna fingerprinting. based on the dna fingerprints of all possible suspects, who is james' killer?