Bottle-Neck Effect Flashcards
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If a few individual’s colonize a new habitat these founding individuals may?
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Carry alleles that differ in relative frequencies from the main population
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What is the Bottle Neck Effect?
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A change in allele frequency following a dramatic reduction in the size of a population
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The founder effect results when?
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Allele frequencies change as a result of the migration of a small subgroup of a population
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Q
Conditions that maintain Genetic Equilibrium are?
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Sexual reproduction
Hardy-Weinberg Principle
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What is the Hardy-Weinberg Principle?
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Allele frequencies in a population should remain constant unless one or more factors cause these frequencies to change
