Population Genetics

Question 1

what is population genetics

Answer 1

study of changes in allele and genotype frequencies within and between popns

Question 2

what is applied population genetics

Answer 2

the study of how ecology and evolution interact in contemporary timescales using molecular markers and techniques to study ecology

Question 3

what evolutionary forces impact genetic diversity

Answer 3

mutation
genetic drift
selection
migration

Question 4

what is Ne

Answer 4

effective population size- size of an ideal population of size N which drifts at the same rate as observed

Question 5

what is a microsatellite

Answer 5

used in popn genetic studies

shows short regions of dna with high rates of mutation

Question 6

define dominance

Answer 6

statistical property describing the interaction of alleles at a locus
influences how rapidly an allele will proceed to fixation

Question 7

what is epistasis

Answer 7

statistical property describing the interaction of diff loci