Gene pool and Genetic Diversity

Question 1

population

Answer 1

a breeding group of individuals of the same species occupying a particular habitat and a particular niche

Question 2

gene pool

Answer 2

the sum total of all the genes in a population at a given time

Question 3

selection pressure

Answer 3

the effect of one or more environmental factors that determine whether an organism will be more or less successful at surviving and reproducing; selection pressure drives speciation

Question 4

Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

Answer 4

the mathematical relationship between the frequencies of alleles and genotypes in a population; the equation used to describe this relationship can be used to work out the stable allele frequencies within a population

Question 5

gene flow

Answer 5

the migration of either whole organisms or genetic material into or out of a population and into another population, tending to make different populations more alike, but changing the allele frequencies within each individual population all the time