BIOL 1911 Study Guide - Blastocyst, Emulsion, Y Chromosome
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We are members of a sexually reproducing species and need to join up with someone of the opposite sex to mate, conceive offspring, and pass our genes onto the next generation. Hutterites are people who can trace their ancestry back to the 400 members of the anabaptist sect who migrated from europe to the us who settled in south dakota. According to geneticists, they are ideal subjects because the 400 original settlers were closely related and believed to be descended from 90 individuals. And they are usually inbred because they must marry inside their own group. Various alleles referred by letters a, b, c, dr, dq, dp, e, f, and g. there are at least 60 of the. A gene, 150 of the b, 180 of the dr, and so on. There are a lot of combinations because the hla system tells the body to reject tissue that does not match its own.
