Populations

Question 1

Define a species

Answer 1

a group of individuals that have common ancestry and are capable of breeding with each other and producing fertile offspring.
Species exist as one or more populations

Question 2

Define a population

Answer 2

a group of organisms of the same species occupying

a particular space at a particular time that can potentially interbreed.

Question 3

Define a gene pool

Answer 3

all of the alleles of all the genes of all the individuals

of a population

Question 4

Define Allele frequency

Answer 4

the proportion of the individuals that have

one copy of an allele

Question 5

What impacts allele frequency?

Answer 5

Allele frequencies change in response to selection pressures by natural selection between and within populations.