Essentials of Genetics 9th Edition by Michael Palladino William Klug, Michael Cummings, Charlotte Spencer

Exercise 16

A geneticist, in assessing data that fell into two phenotypic classes, observed values of 250:150. He decided to perform chisquare analysis using two different null hypotheses: (a) The data fit a 3:1 ratio; and (b) the data fit a 1:1 ratio. Calculate the ? 2 values for each hypothesis. What can you conclude about each hypothesis?