You are hired by Murphey Farms to decrease the backfat in their hogs. The current hog population has a mean backfat content of 20.2mm. You selected the hogs with the smallest amount of backfat, mated them and obtained the progeny generation. The selected hogs had a mean backfat content of 9.5mm. You know that the heritability for percent backfat in hogs is 0.47. 1. What is the selection differential? Round your values properly to 2 decimal digits.
2. What is the expected response to selection? Round your values properly to 2 decimal digits.
3. What is the expected mean of the progeny generation? Round your values properly to 2 decimal digits.

92 sathe best for the question 11. most animals and plants reproduce sexually. this means that dna is passed down to new organisms from two parental organisms. which of the following is a key advantage of sexual reproduction?

Ascientist discovers a new body between the orbit of neptune and the kuiper belt. the object is round and travels in an orbit around neptune with other space objects. the scientist claims that she has found a new dwarf planet. where is the scientist’s error?

Tara sees a commercial for a brand of pills that promise to boost energy and people perform better in work and school. as people in the commercial talk about how much better they feel when taking the pill, tara notices a message on the bottom of the screen that reads, "this pill is not approved by doctors and has not been tested in controlled experiments." what is the best conclusion that tara should make about the commercial? it is making scientific claims based on subjective observations. it is making scientific claims based on opinions instead of pseudoscientific facts. it is making pseudoscientific claims based on objective observations. it is making pseudoscientific claims based on opinions instead of scientific facts.