Color in squash is controlled by epistatic interactions in which color is recessive to no color. at the first locus white squash (w) is dominant to colored squash (w). at the second locus yellow (y) is dominant to green (y). what is the phenotype of a squash with the genotype wwyy?
a) white
b) green with yellow strips
c) green
d) yellow
e) white with yellow strips

In german cockroaches, curved wing (cv) is recessive to normal wing (cv+). bill, who is raising cockroaches in his dorm room, finds that the frequency of the gene for curved wings in his cockroach population is 0.6. in his friend joe’s apartment, the frequency of the gene for curved wings is 0.2. one day joe visits bill in his dorm room, and several cockroaches jump out of joe’s hair and join the population in bill’s room. bill estimates that, now, 10% of the cockroaches in his dorm room are individual roaches that jumped out of joe’s hair. what is the new frequency of curved wings among cockroaches in bill’s room? 0.69 0.4 0.5 0.31 0.20

Which of the following is the best definition for the process of photosynthesis? a.) plants digest sugars to make energy. b.) plants use oxygen and glucose to make carbon dioxide. c.) plants use sunlight and carbon dioxide to make sugars. d.) plants use sunlight to make chlorophyll and chloroplasts.

Under the soviet system, the government a. controlled all forms of communication. b. allowed newspapers to print whatever they wanted. c. controlled editorials but not the reporting of news. d. encouraged access to a wide variety of news sources. select the best answer from the choices provided a b c d