Imagine that you are researcher trying to identify genes that were involved in the domestication of tomatoes. You collect the following data:   Gene W variants Gene X variants Gene Y variants Gene Z variants Domestic Tomatoes W1, W3 X2, X3, X5 Y4 Z1, Z3, Z5, Z6 Wild Tomatoes W1, W2, W3 X1, X2, X3, X4, X5 Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6, Y7 Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, Z5, Z6   Which gene was most likely a target of selection during domestication?      W     Y     Z     X

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Imagine that you are researcher trying to identify genes that were involved in the domestication of tomatoes. You collect the following data:

  Gene W variants Gene X variants Gene Y variants Gene Z variants
Domestic Tomatoes W1, W3 X2, X3, X5 Y4 Z1, Z3, Z5, Z6
Wild Tomatoes W1, W2, W3 X1, X2, X3, X4, X5 Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6, Y7 Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, Z5, Z6

 

Which gene was most likely a target of selection during domestication? 

   

W

   

Y

   

Z

   

X

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