Molecular ecology.2 Flashcards

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How can genetic variation change in a population without natural selection?

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population size and structure

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What does the outlier represent?

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where the fst value is greater than expected by neutral expectations

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Name the main categories of omics (5)

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  • genomics
  • proteomics
  • metabolomics
  • phenomics
  • transcriptomics
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What is phenomics?

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study of phenotypes, morphological, biochemical and physical traits

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What are quantitative traits?

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phenotypes that vary in degree and can be attributed to polygenic effects

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What is the coalescene theory?

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A model of the effect of genetic drift viewed as a genelogy that considers all pathways of inheritance

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What is the role of recombination of DNA?

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it breaks up the physical co inheritance of DNA variation

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Where does NO recombination happen?

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mitochondrial DNA

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9
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Define homologue

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a character shared by 2 species because it was inherited from a common ancestor

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Define homoplasy

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a character shred by 2 species but is not inherited by shared ancestry, by natural selection instead

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What is the difference between synapomorphy and apomorphy?

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synapomorphy= types of characters shared by common ancestry and between 2 species
apomorphy= characters shared by only species within the tree
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What are orthologs?

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genes shared by a common ancestor

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What are paralogs?

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copies of genes found within the same genome that don’t share a common ancestor

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What is the difference between convergent and parallel evolution?

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convergent = where traits are produced by different genes or developmental pathways
parallel = traits are produced by same genes or developmental pathways
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Name 4 types of how homoplasy can be created

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  1. genes evolve independently of species
  2. convergent evolution
  3. parallel evolution
  4. evolutionary reversals
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16
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Name the 3 components of phylogenetic reconstruction

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cladistics
phenetics
statistics

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What is cladistics?

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a method of classification of organisms that aims to identify shared characteristics which have derived from a common ancestor of a group of species during evolution,

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What is phenetics?

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a method of classification of organisms based on their overall similarity and morphology

19
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How does statistics classify organisms?

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single tree explains evolution in terms of probability given the data

20
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What does parsimony mean?

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we are minimising the number of evolutionary steps it takes to explain the evolutionary relationship between species

21
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Define pleisomorphy

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characters that are ancestral shared by 2 or more taxa

22
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Define autapomorphy

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a derived trait that is not shared with any other taxa, unique to teh species but not grouping to any other species

23
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Name the 2 models that can be created for phylogenetic reconstruction by statistics

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  • juke cantor= assumes any transitions nucleotides in sequences have equal probability
  • kimura= transition have a substitution rate which is different from the transversions
24
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Define adaptive radiation

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the process by which organisms diversify rapidly from ancestral species into new forms

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What is the ectomorph concept by Ernest Williams in 1972?
'species with teh same structural habitat/niche similar in morphology but not necessarily close phyletically'
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Name the 4 factors which make up adaptive radiation
1. common ancestry 2. strong link between environments and specific traits 3. fitness advantage 4. rapid rise of new species
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Where can adaptive radiation be clearly seen?
the Hawaii islands, emerged as hotspots, crating new habitats out of no where