-Background Information: A researcher was interested in determining whether the rate of mutation in a single cell prokaryote impacted how many mutations would occur and whether the mutations would be random. They are interested in three hypotheses related to this.
-Hypotheses:
1. The number of mutations per offspring will increase as the mutation rate increases.
2. Individual genes will randomly mutate, thus each gene is as likely to suffer a mutation as any other gene
3. The viability (ability of offspring to reproduce) will decrease as the number of mutations increases
-Methods: The single cell prokaryote (called an Avidian) had fifty genes in its genome and it was possible for the researcher to specify five different mutation rates (0.5, 1, 1.5, 2 and 2.5%)
Starting with a single Avidian cell, in each run five offspring were produced using one of the five mutation rates (these correspond to the rows in the data sheet).
For each offspring produced the number and location of any mutations was recorded as well as whether the offspring was viable (could produce offspring of its own).
– Attached file is the spread with the data and the tasks that you need to complete.
