Populations Evolution

Question 1

Study of the diversity of allele differences

Answer 1

Population genetics

Question 2

Evolutionary changes with in populations

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Microevolution

Question 3

Various alleles of all genes in all individuals make up the ….

Answer 3

Gene pool

Question 4

Proportion of each allele with in a populations gene pool

Answer 4

Allele frequency

Question 5

Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium States:

Allele frequency in a population will remain constant Assuming… (5)

Answer 5

No mutations

No Gene Flow

Random Mating

No Genetic Drift

No Selection

Question 6

Gene mutations, 
Gene Flow (movement of alleles between population), 
Genetic Drift ( Changes in the allele frequency of a population due to change rather than selection by env.)

Answer 6

Causes of Microevolution

Question 7

Who said; Each species has a perfect or “ essential “ form and variations is an imperfection on this essential form?

Answer 7

Plato

Question 8

Who arranged organisms based on increasing order of complexity

Answer 8

Aristotle

Question 9

Who wrote a 44 volume natural history series that described all plants and animals

Answer 9

Georges-Louis Leclerc aka Count Buffon

Question 10

Who developed bi nominal nomenclature

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Carolus Linnaeus

Question 11

Scala naturae

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Sequential Ladder

Simplest being at the bottom with God in top

Question 12

Belief, supported by James Hutton, that geological forces act at a continuous, uniform rate

Answer 12

Uniformitarianism

Question 13

Define Catastrophism and who proposed this idea

Answer 13

Cuvier

Changes in fossils in strata are explained by local mass extinctions followed by new species repopulating the area

Question 14

Whose idea was “inheritance of acquired characteristics “

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Lamarck

Question 15

Study of geographic distribution of organisms

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Biogeography

Question 16

Over production potential of a species is referred to as

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Differential Reproductive success

Question 17

Movement of alleles between populations

Answer 17

Gene flow

Question 18

Changes in the allele frequency of a gene pool due to chance events

This type of Evolution is more common in large or small populations

Answer 18

Genetic Drift

Small

Question 19

Type of genetic Drift, when a majority of genotypes are prevented from participating in producing the next generation, by Natural Disaster or Human Interference

Answer 19

Bottleneck Effect

Question 20

Cause of genetic Drift due to colonization by a limited number of individuals who, by chance, have a different genotype and allele frequency than the parent population

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Founder effect

Question 21

What is referred to as the change in allele frequency of a population over many generations

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Evolution

Question 22

P² + 2pq + q² is the formula for what?

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The Hardy Weinberg Principle

Question 23

Nonrandom Mating is also called _____ ______

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Assortative Mating

Question 24

Type of natural selection that the intermediate variation is most adaptive, as in human birth weight

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Stabilizing selection

Question 25

Type of natural selection either of the extreme phenotypes is favored, as when antibiotic resistance increases over time

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Directional selection

Question 26

Type of natural selection 2 or more extreme phenotypes are favored, 2 Peaks formed on Graph.

British land snails have 2 different banding colors

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Disruptive selection

Question 27

When a species has 1 recessive allele that gives them an advantage, such as in sickel-cell anema

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Hetrozygote advantage

Question 28

Type of Evolution that includes formation of new species

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Macroevolution

Question 29

Adaptive traits tend to increase in frequency as a result of

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Differential reproduction

Question 30

Origin of new species due to evolutionary process of descent with modification

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Speciation