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The more distantly related two members of a family are, the fewer alleles they will have in common, inherited from a common ancestor. Figure 8-2 Allele sharing at an arbitrary locus…

Figure 11-2 The structure of a hemoglobin subunit. Each subunit has eight helical regions, designated A to H. The two most conserved amino acids are shown: His92, the histidine to which the…

Figure 18-1 Cumulative incidence (per 10,000) of colon cancer versus age in individuals with and without a family history of the disease. The challenge going forward is to screen populations, independent…

Figure 15-11 The Philadelphia chromosome translocation, t(9;22)(q34;q11). The Philadelphia chromosome (Ph1) is the derivative chromosome 22, which has exchanged part of its long arm for a segment of material from chromosome 9q…

3. Match the terms in the left-hand column with the terms that best fit in the right-hand column.

Figure 14-23 This scanning electron micrograph of a 4-week human embryo illustrates the early budding of the forelimb. Overlaid onto the bud are the three axes of limb specification: Do-V, dorsal-ventral (dorsal…

bp, Base pair; kb, kilobase pair; Mb, megabase pair. Figure 4-1 Three polymorphisms in genomic DNA from the segment of the human genome reference assembly shown at the top (see also…

Figure 2-1 The human genome, encoded on both nuclear and mitochondrial chromosomes. See Sources & Acknowledgments. In addition to the nuclear genome, a small but important part of the human genome…