Gregor Mendel discovered the basic laws of heredity by studying pea plants. In one experiment, he produced

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Gregor Mendel discovered the basic laws of heredity by studying pea plants. In one experiment, he produced plants whose parent plants contained genes for both green and yellow pods. Mendel’s theory states that the offspring of two such parents has probability 0.75 of having green pods. Assume that 80 such plants are produced.

a. Find the mean number of plants that have green pods.

b. Find the variance of the number of plants that have green pods.

c. Find the standard deviation of the number of plants that have green pods.

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Elementary Statistics

ISBN: 9781259969454

3rd Edition

Authors: William Navidi, Barry Monk

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