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4. A wildlife biologist studied four generations of a population of rare Ethiopian jackals. When the study began, there were 47 jackals in the population, and analysis of micro satellite loci from theseanimals showed a heterozygote frequency of 0.55. In the second generation, an outbreak of
distemper occurred in the population and only 17 animals survived to adulthood. These jackals
produced 20 surviving offspring,
which in turn gave rise to 35 progeny in the fourth generation.
A. What was the effective population size for the four generations of this study?



B. Based on it’s effective population size, what is the heterozygote frequency of the jackal
population in generation 4?




C. What is the inbreeding coefficient in generation 4 assuming an inbreeding coefficient of F = 0
at the beginning of the study, no change in microsatellite allele frequencies in the gene pool,
and random mating in all generations?

Hi courtneyheron,

I'm guessing this is from your Essentials of Genetics textbook. What chapter and edition is your textbook?

I had a same question, it's ch 25, 10th edition

The one by Klug? I think it only goes up to the 8th edition, doesn't it?