Homozygous Taster Paper

Results Once the PTC data was collected, there were three categories for the experiment which were taster homozygous PAV/PAV, taster heterozygous PAV/AVI, and a nontaster AVI/AVI. The phenotype I received from the PTC analysis was a heterozygous taster. The data was recorded based on the genotype numbers and the allele frequencies. For the total number of the biology 213 class was 946. The totals for the PTC genotype numbers were 158 for the PAV/PAV homozygous taster, 182 for PAV/ AVI heterozygous taster and 133 for AVI/AVI nontasters. Once having all the analyzed PTC and the totals,
The meaning of this p-value is that the there is a difference between the observed and the expected genotype numbers. This signifies that the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium is not included in the population of the experiment, which means that it is evolving. It is important to use the population data for the entire course of biology 213 rather than the individual classes because the sample size of the population will be small. Having the course-wide data can be analyzed and interpreted with better results because there will be a higher evidence if the HWE are met. There is evidence of selection because each phenotype gene had a variety of frequencies and alleles. A study was conducted to see if black mice or albino mice can taste the bitterness of the PTC (Lush 1986). The results that were concluded was that each type of mouse consumed the PTC had a variation of bitterness. Some mice were able to taste it, but some weren’t (Lush 1986). Depending on the mouse and on their capacity to taste bitterness is what determined their ability to taste the PTC (Lush 1986). An error that could have occurred in the experiment was that some students didn’t record their results or some of the samples were not exact. In order to improve the results, supervision can be applied to make sure that students actually record their analysis. This experiment