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Microevolution Flashcards

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What is an allele?

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One of two or more alternative forms of a gene

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What is a phenotype?

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The set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment

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What is a genotype?

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The genetic constitution of an individual organism

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What is a gene pool?

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The sum of all alleles in a population

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Is phenotype or genotype observable? Which is genetic information?

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Observable – Phenotype
Genetic Information – Genotype

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Populations exhibit allelic, or what, variation?

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Genetic

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What is microevolution?

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The generation-to-generation changes in allele frequency within a population.

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What is the smallest evolution scale?

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Microevolution

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What are the five causes of microevolution?

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Mutation, gene flow, nonrandom mating, genetic drift, and selection

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What is mutation?

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Changes the proportions of specific alleles in a population

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What is the least important factor in microevolution and has very low rates?

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Mutation

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The ultimate source of genetic variation is what?

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Mutation

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What is gene flow?

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Changes in allele (gene) frequency due to immigration or emigration into or out of the gene pool/population.

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A mutated gene leads to what two types of proteins?

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No protein or abnormal protein

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What is nonrandom mating?

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Individuals with certain genotypes sometimes mate with one another more commonly than is expected on a random basis

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What is disassortative mating and what does it increase?

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Preference for different genotypes or phenotypes and increases heterozygosity

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What is assortative mating and what does it increase?

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Preference for similar genotypes or phenotypes and increases homozygosity

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What is genetic drift due to and affects what population size more?

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Environmental events and small populations

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What is genetic drift?

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Change in frequency of an existing gene variation in the population due to random chance

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Genetic drift can lead to what in small, isolated populations?

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Loss of alleles

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What is the Founder Effect?

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Allele frequencies of the founding individuals in new populations differ from the allele frequencies in the population from which they came

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A bottleneck event leads to loss and alteration of what?

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Genetic variability

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A bottleneck leads to a drastic reduction in what and is caused by what forces in the environment?

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Population and natural forces like flooding, epidemic diseases, and wildfires

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What is selection?

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An unequal survival of genes across generations

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Selections favors some individuals over others which typically leads to a phenotype with greater what usually increasing in the environment?

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Fitness

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What does disruptive selection do?

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Removes intermediate phenotypes and is for both extremes

25
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What does directional selection do?

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Selection acts to eliminate one extreme from an array of phenotypes

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What is stabilizing selection?

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Selection acts to eliminate both extremes from an array of phenotypes

27
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About what percent of humans of European descent immune to HIV and other infectious diseases?

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10%

28
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The Black Death of 1348-1350 killed blank million or what percentage of Europe’s population?

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75 million or 30-60%

29
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With the Black Death, the allele frequency for HIV and other infectious diseases went from 1:20,000 to 1:what?

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1:10

29
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Natural skin color is an what or what?

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Adaptation or natural selection

30
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What is the quantification of fitness?

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Number of surviving offspring relative to other individuals

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