the Big picture

Question 1

_____ produces organisms adapted or matched to their environment to promote reproductive fitness

Answer 1

Selection

Question 2

Phenotypes serve as temporary vehicles with the sole purpose of moving genes into the next generation; there is no preordained plan, purpose or outcome

Answer 2

true

Question 3

Natural selection cannot take place without _________ but this does not mean that every variation has an adaptive advantage

Answer 3

phenotypic variation,

Question 4

Selection serves to optimize the inevitable trade off between ______ on the one hand and the _________ and _________ (and other dangers) on the other

Answer 4

reproductive success and availability of resources and presence of predators

Question 5

A genotype produces many different phenotypes – ___________plays a key role in the determination of disease risk and other phenotypes

Answer 5

developmental plasticity

Question 6

Inherited genomes contribute to disease in three basic ways

Answer 6

1. Chromosomal aneuploidy
2. Single gene mutations
3. Multigene single nucleotide polymorphisms