Answers to Review Questions
General Genetics
Emporia State University
These are answers to some of the problems from your textbook
(Tamarin, R. 1996. Principles of Genetics, 5th ed., Wm. C. Brown Publ., Inc.). The answers for almost all of the questions that are at the ends of the chapters are at the back of the book. The answers below provide some additional detail. Be sure that you understand how to work these problems and other similar problems in your textbook, as these problems (in one form or another) may appear on examinations.
Chapter 2 -- Mendel's Principles
Chapter 3 -- Mitosis and Meiosis
Chapter 4 -- Probability and Statistics
Chapter 5 -- Sex Determination, Sex Linkage, and Pedigree Analysis
Chapter 6 -- Linkage and Mapping in Eukaryotes
Chapter 7 -- Linkage and Mapping in Prokaryotes
Chapter 8 -- Cytogenetics
Chapter 9 -- Chemistry of the Gene
Chapter 10 -- Gene Expression: Transcription
Chapter 18 -- Quantitative Inheritance
Chapter 19 -- Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium and Mating Systems
Chapter 20 -- Population Genetics: Processes...
Last updated on 22 August 1996.
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