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Chapter 23 Microevolution Flashcards

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What is microevolution?

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Change of life in allele frequencies in a population over generations

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What are the 3 mechanical causes of allele frequency change?

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  • natural selection
  • genetic drift
  • gene flow
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What can only cause adaptive evolution?

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Natural selection

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What is a prerequisite for evolution?

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Genetic variation in heritable traits

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What is genetic variation?

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Among individuals it’s caused by differences in genes or other DNA segments

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What is a phenotype?

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Physical appearance of genes

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What is a genotype?

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Genetic makeup code

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What are some phenotypic differences determined by?

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Determined by a single gene

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What are other phenotypic differences determined by?

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The influence of two or more genes, and varies along a continuum within a population

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What is measured as gene variability or nucleotide variability?

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Genetic variation

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What also can cause a change in phenotypic variation?

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Environmental influences

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What kind of variation can only have evolutionary consequences?

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Only genetically determined variation

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When does the recombination of existing alleles happen?

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Happens during the process of meiosis

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What is a mutation?

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Random change in nucleotide sequence of DNA

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What is a point mutation?

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Change in one base in a gene

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What are the effects of a point mutation?

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  • Varies in mutation can be harmful, beneficial, or neutral
  • Usually are hidden in recessive alleles
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What is neutral variation?

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Conferring no selective advantage or disadvantage in mutation

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Where can neutral variation happen?

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It can happen in point mutations in the noncoding region

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Chromosomal Mutation

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Mutations that delete, disrupt, or rearrange many loci that are typically harmful

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Duplication Mutation

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Increases genome size and is usually less harmful
- can take on new function by further mutation

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Why are mutations rates higher in viruses compared to prokaryotes?

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Due to rapid reproduction

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What is a population?

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Localized group of individuals that’s capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring

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What is a gene pool?

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Consists of all the alleles for all loci in a population

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What is a diploid organism?

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The total number of alleles at locus is the total number of individuals times 2

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What is the Hardy-Weinberg formula?

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  • p + q = 1
  • p^2 + 2pq + q^2 = 1
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What does the Hardy-Weinberg equation describe?

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Describes the genetic makeup we expect for a population that’s not evolving at a particular locus.

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How do we know if a population may be evolving?

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If the observed genotype of population differs from expectations under Hardy-Weinberg

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What is the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium?

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Alleles and genotype frequencies remain constant from generation to generation

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What are the 5 conditions for a nonevolving population that are rarely met?

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  1. no mutations
  2. random mating
  3. no natural selection
  4. extremely large population size
  5. no gene flow
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What is genetic drift?

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Describes how allele frequencies fluctuate unpredictably from one generation to the next

  • tends to reduce genetic variation thru loss of alleles
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What is the founder effect?

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Occurs when a few individuals become isolated from a larger population

32
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What is the bottleneck effect?

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Sudden reduction in population size due to change in the environment

(such as changes due to natural disasters)

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What is relative fitness?

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Contribution of an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation

  • relative to the contributions of other individuals
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What is gene flow?

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Consists of the movement of alleles among populations

35
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What are some effects of genetic drift?

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  • significant in small populations
  • can cause allele frequencies to change at random
  • can lead to a loss of genetic variation within populations
  • can cause harmful alleles to become fixed
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What are some effects of gene flow?

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  • can increase or decrease the relative fitness of a population
  • reduces genetic variation over time
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What are the 3 modes of selection?

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  • directional selection
  • disruptive selection
  • stabilizing selection
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Directonal Selection

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favors individuals at one extreme end of the phenotypic range

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Disruptive Selection

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Favors individuals at both extreme ends of the phenotypic range

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Stabilizing Selection

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Favors immediate variants and acts against extreme phenotypes

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Sexual selection?

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natural selection for mating success that results in sexual dimorphism

42
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sexual dimorphism

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Marked differences b/w the sexes in secondary sexual characteristics

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intrasexual selection

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direct competition among individuals of one sex (often males) for mates of the opposite sex

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intersexual selection

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often called mate choice, occurs when individuals of one sex (usually females) are choosy in selecting their mates

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Balancing Selection

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Occurs when natural selection maintains stable frequencies of two or more phenotypic forms in a population

  • includes: heterozygous advantage and frequency dependent selection
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Heterozygote Advantage

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Occurs when heterozygotes have a higher fitness than do both homozygotes

  • results from stabilizing or directional selection
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Frequency-Dependent Selection

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Fitness of a phenotype declines if it becomes too common in the population

48
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Why natural selection cannot fashion perfect organisms? (4 things)

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  1. selection can act only on existing variations
  2. evolution is limited by historical constraints
  3. Adaptations are often compromises
  4. Chance, natural selection, and the environment interact

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