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Topic 7B: Population and Evolution Flashcards

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What is a species?

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a group of similar organisms that produce fertile offspring

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What is a population?

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a group of organisms of the same species living in a particular area at a particular time

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What is a gene pool?

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Complete range of alleles present in the population

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What is allele frequency?

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How often an allele occurs in a population

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What does the Hardy-Weinberg principle predict?

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that the frequency of alleles in a population wont change from one generation to the next

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The Hardy-Weinberg prediction is only true under what conditions?

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  • large population
  • no immigration/emigration
  • no mutations
  • no natural selection
  • random mating
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What do the Hardy-Weinberg equations calculate?

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-frequency of alleles

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What is the equation that calculates allele frequency?

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p + q = 1

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What is the equation that calculates genotype/phenotype frequency?

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p^2 + q^2 + 2pq = 1

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p is….

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dominant

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q is….

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recessive

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What is variation?

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differences that exist between individuals

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What causes variation?

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  • genes
  • the environment
  • or both
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Variation within species means….

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wide range of different phenotypes

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Although individuals of the same species have the same genes but

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  • they have different alleles

- this causes genetic variation

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What is the main source of genetic variation?

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-mutation
BUT also 
-crossing over
-independent segregation
-random fertilisation
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What type of variation is caused within species most commonly?

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a combination of genetic and environmental factors

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Only genetic variation causes….

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evolution

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19
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What is evolution?

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A change in allele frequencies over time

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What is a method by which evolution occurs?

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Natural selection

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Outline how evolution changes the allele frequency…

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  • Individuals of the same species vary between different alleles
  • selection pressures create a struggle for survival
  • organisms better adapted to the selection pressure survive/reproduce/pass onto offspring
  • greater proportion inherit the beneficial alleles
  • changes the frequency of alleles
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Name the three different types of selections?

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  • Directional
  • Stabilising
  • Disruptive
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What is stabilising selection?

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  • favours the middle of the range
  • environment isnt changing
  • reduces the range of possible phenotypes
  • avoid extremes
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What is directional selections

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  • favours an extreme phenotype

- response to environmental change

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What is disruptive selection?

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  • favour BOTH extreme phenotypes
  • opposite to stabilising selection
  • middle range is lost
  • environment favours more than one phenotype
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Explain an example of stabilising selection

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  • fur length
  • fur at extremes reduced the chance of survival
  • because harder to maintain body temperature
  • so average fur length are most likely to survive and reproduce
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Explain an example of directional selection

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  • cheetahs run really fast
  • due to directional selection
  • individuals with increased speed more likely to catch prey
  • these compete with slower individuals and survive and reproduce etc
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Explain an example of disruptive selection

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  • range of beak sizes
  • birds with large beaks are designed to eat large seeds
  • birds with small beaks are designed to eat small seeds
  • birds with medium sized beaks have reduce chance of survival
  • pop of small and large beaks increases
29
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Name two types of speciation?

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  • Allopatric

- Sympatric

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What is speciation?

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development of new species from an existing one

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How does speciation occur?

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when population of the same species becomes reproductively isolated

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What does it mean being reproductively isolated?

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when the species can no longer interbreed to produce fertile offspring

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What is reproductive isolation?

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changes in allele frequency cause changes in the phenotypes

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What does geographical isolation lead to?

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allopatric speciations

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Outline allopatric speciations

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  • population geographically isolated due to selection pressure OR genetic variation due to mutation
  • creates physical barrier
  • pop experience different selection pressures
  • different environmental conditions
  • changes in the alleles cause directional selection
  • causes differential reproductive success
  • changes in allele frequency/gene pool
  • they become reproductively isolated
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Examples of selection pressures

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predatation, climate, disease

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What is sympatric speciation?

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Random mutations that could occur within population, preventing members of that population breeding with other member of the species

38
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What is polyploidy?

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When mutations can occur that increase the number of chromosomes

39
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Example of sympatric speciation?

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  • eukaryotic organisms are diploid
  • if they are polyploidy then reproduction can not happen sexually
  • polyploidy organism becomes reproductively isolated
  • if polyploidy organisms can reproduce asexually they new species could develop
40
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Is sympatric speciation more common in plants or animals?

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Plants

41
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What in are the ways species can be reproductively isolated?

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Changes in:
seasonal
mechanical
behavioural

42
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What is a seasonal change?

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-developing different flowering/mating seasons
OR
-becoming sexually active at different times of the year

43
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What is a mechanical change?

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changes in the genitalia preventing successful mating

44
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What is a behaviour change?

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a group of individuals developing courtship rituals that are not attractive to the main population

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What is genetic drift?

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When chance rather than environment factors dictates which individuals survive breed and pass on their alleles.

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Example of genetic drift

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  • variation in genotype
  • by chance allele for one genoptype is passed on to offspring
  • allele frequency of that allele increases
  • reproductive isolation
47
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Evolution can occur by

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  • genetic drift

- natural selection

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When does genetic drift have a greater effect?

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  • When population size is smaller and so chance has a greater influence
  • in greater population the chance variation tends to even out
49
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Evolutionary changes causes..

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greater diversity

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