Wavy hair in mice is a recessive genetic trait. If mice withwavy hair are mated with straight hair (heterozygous) mice, eachoffspring has probability ½ of having wavy hair. Consider alarge number of such matings, each producing a litter of 5offspring. What percentage of the litters will consist of (a) two wavy- haired and three straight-hairedoffsprings? (b) Three or more straight-haired offspring? (c) All the same type (either all wavy or allstraight - haired) offspring?
Wavy | Straight | Probability |
0 | 5 | .031 |
1 | 4 | 0.156 |
2 | 3 | 0.313 |
3 | 2 | 0.313 |
4 | 1 | .156 |
5 | 0 | .031 |
By using excel formula BINOMDIST(p,q,FALSE)
For example....
=>BINOMDIST(0.5,0.5,FALSE)
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