Heredity, Ecology & Disease Flashcards
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What is the Temporal Hypothesis?
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Environments are unpredictable therefore sexual recombination should favour survival of families under these conditions (some recombinants will make it)
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Where does phenotypic variability arise from?
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P= G + E + GE
P= phenotypic variability G= genes E= environment
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What is the Spatial Hypothesis?
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Siblings may compete with one another because they tend to occupy the same environment, sexual reproduction will lead to new combination that will escape intraspecific competition
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What is the Red Queen Hypothesis?
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Sexual recombination may lead to a host to produce offspring that escapades infection from parasites. At the same time it would allow the parasite to track these changes in the host. (Example of frequency dependant selection)
