Essential Genetics 6th Edition by Daniel Hartl

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Estimate the minimum number of genes affecting fruit weight in a population of the domestic tomato produced by crossing two inbred strains. Measured as the logarithm of fruit weight in grams, the inbred lines have average fruit weights of 0.137 and 1.689. The F1 generation has a variance of 0.0144, and the
generation has a variance of 0.0570.