You inherited your mother's crooked nose and her recipe for chocolate chip cookies (both favorable traits). Which trait will be spread more quickly through the population?

a. the nose because it can be passed on to all relatives

b. the recipe because it can be passed on to all relatives

c. They are both advantageous traits and spread at the same rate.

d. the recipe because it is a genetically based trait.

e. the nose because it is a genetically based trait.

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Alina Bartlett

Biology

9 May, 09:36

You inherited your mother's crooked nose and her recipe for chocolate chip cookies (both favorable traits). Which trait will be spread more quickly through the population?

a. the nose because it can be passed on to all relatives

b. the recipe because it can be passed on to all relatives

c. They are both advantageous traits and spread at the same rate.

d. the recipe because it is a genetically based trait.

e. the nose because it is a genetically based trait.

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Pecan · Answer 1

b

Explanation:

A recipe can be passed on by a simple message, it takes a generation to pass on genetic traits

Diya Ross · Answer 2

b. the recipe because it can be passed on to all relatives

Explanation:

A crooked nose is a genetic trait and can be passed to the progeny via genes only. Sexually reproducing organisms such as humans experience segregation of traits during gamete formation. Therefore, crooked nose inheritance is a chance factor regulated by the inheritance of genes and the segregation of alleles. On the other hand, a recipe for chocolate chip cookies can be shared with all the relatives and other individuals of the population by any means without any conditions. Therefore, a recipe will spread more quickly through the population.