Natural& Artificial Selection

Question 1

What is artificial selection?

Answer 1

Deliberate selection of breeding by humans for desirable traits

Question 2

What causes evolution?

Answer 2

Mutations

Question 3

3 types of variation

Answer 3

Structural, functional and physiological

Question 4

Define: adaptation

Answer 4

Process helping organisms survive and reproduce in particular environments

Question 5

How are mutations passed on?

Answer 5

Gamete

Question 6

Define: selective advantage

Answer 6

Genetic advantage that allows organism to be favored in survival& reproduction

Question 7

What causes natural selection?

Answer 7

Selective pressures

biotic, predators, parasites, resource competition

Question 8

Define: Fitness

Answer 8

of fertile offspring produced in next generation

Question 9

Define: population

Answer 9

Localized group of indiviscals capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring

Question 10

Define: gene pool

Answer 10

Alleles for loci in a population

Question 11

When is there locus?

Answer 11

All individuals in population are homorygeors for same allele