Evolution3 Flashcards
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Natural Selection acts directly on?
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On phenotypes NOT genotypes
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What also allows us to understand how evolution works?
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Modern Genetics
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Natural selection acts on an organism’s?
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Characteristics not alleles
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What is a population?
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A group of individuals of the same species that mate and produce offspring
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A population does what?
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They interfered so they can share a common group of genes aka a gene pool
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What is Allele Frequency?
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The number of times an allele occurs in a gene pool compared to the total number of alleles in the pool for the same gene
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What is Evolution in Generic Terms?
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Involves a change in the frequency of alleles in a population over time
