question archive The recent legalization of cannabis in Oregon has created a "green rush" of sorts that has many in agriculture dreaming of new lucrative profits
The recent legalization of cannabis in Oregon has created a "green rush" of sorts that has many in agriculture dreaming of new lucrative profits
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The recent legalization of cannabis in Oregon has created a "green rush" of sorts that has many in agriculture dreaming of new lucrative profits. You set out to flex your new quantitative genetics skills and to breed medical marijuana that has an extremely low concentration of THC, the psychoactive component of the plant. If your current breeding population has a mean THC concentration per plant of u = 0.12
, and you can select with a selection coefficient of s = − 0.02
, A) what will the trait mean be after one generation of selective breeding, assuming a heritability of h 2 = 0.3
?
