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Q: How do the principals of probability help explain mendels results?
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The principles of probability can be used to?

predict the results of genetic crosses


How did Mendel's large sample size make his results more reliable?

it made his actual results approach the results predicted by probability.


What are theoretical and expierimental probability?

Theoretical probability is the probability of something occurring when the math is done out on paper or 'in theory' such as the chance of rolling a six sided dice and getting a 2 is 1/6. Experimental probability is what actually occurs during an experiment trying to determine the probability of something. If a six sided dice is rolled ten times and the results are as follows 5,2,6,2,5,3,1,4,6,1 then the probability of rolling a 2 is 1/3. The law of large numbers states the more a probability experiment is preformed the closer to the theoretical probability the results will be.


What is the experimental probability of rolling a 3?

The experimental probability of anything cannot be answered without doing it, because that is what experimental probability is - the probability that results from conducting an experiment, a posteri. This is different than theoretical probability, which can be computed a priori. For instance, the theoretical probability of rolling a 3 is 1 in 6, or about 0.1667, but the experimental probability changes every time you run the experiment


How could the principle of probability be used to predict the results of genetic crosses?

In genetical experiments the principle of probability is used to predict the results at !% and 5% probability levels. If a particular character appears in 95 plants out of 100, it is considered as a significant character to be inherited. For reaching more accuracy it may be tested at 1% level.