Variation and Sexual Reproduction Flashcards

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What are the costs of sexual reproduction?

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males are unable to produce offspring, only half of each parents gamete is passed onto offspring and it disrupts successful parental genomes.

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What are the benefits of sexual reproduction?

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Theres an increase in genetic variation.

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What does genetic variation provide?

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Genetic variation provides the raw material required for adaption, giving sexually reproducing organisms a better chance of survival under changing selection pressures.

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Use the Red Queen Hypothesis to explain the persistence of sexual reproduction.

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Without such genetic variety, the Red Queen Arms race would stop. In other words, this variation can drive selection and evolution should the different genes and alleles provide the individual with an advantage and increased chance of survival.

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What may select for sexually reproducing hosts?

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Co-evolutionary interactions between parasites and hosts may select for sexually reproducing hosts.

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What does it mean for parasites when a host reproduces sexually?

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If hosts reproduce sexually, the genetic variability in their offspring reduces the chances that all will be susceptible to infection by parasites.

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What are the benefits of asexual reproduction?

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Asexual reproduction can be a successful reproductive strategy as whole genomes are passed on from parent to offspring.

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In what niche is maintaining the genome of a parent is an advantage?

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Maintaining the genome of the parent is an advantage in very narrow, stable niches or when re-colonising disturbed habitats.

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What are examples of asexual reproduction in eukaryotes?

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Vegetative cloning in plants and parthenogenesis in lower plants and animals that fertilisation are examples of asexual reproduction in eukaryotes.

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How often and how much offspring are produced during asexual reproduction.

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Offspring can be reproduced more often and in larger numbers with asexual reproduction.

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Where is parthenogenesis more common?

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Parthenogenesis is more common in cooler climates, which are disadvantageous to parasites, or regions of low parasite density or diversity.

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How can mutations help organisms and plants that reproduce asexually.

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Asexually reproducing populations are not able to adapt easily to changes in their environment, but mutations can occur that provide some degree of variation and enable some natural selection and evolution to occur

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How do organisms that reproduce principally by asexual reproduction have variation?

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Organisms that reproduce principally by asexual reproduction also often have mechanisms for horizontal gene transfer between individuals to increase variation, for example the plasmids of bacteria and yeasts.

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What is meiosis?

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Meiosis is the division of the nucleus that results in the formation of haploid gametes from a diploid gametocyte.

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What do chromosomes appear as in diploid cells?

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In diploid cells, chromosomes typically appear as homologous pairs.

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What happens in meiosis 1?

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The chromosomes, which have replicated prior to meiosis 1, each consist of two genetically identical chromatids attached to the centromere.
The chromosomes condense and the homologous chromosomes pair up
Chiasmata form at points of contact between the non-sister chromatids of a homologous pair and sections of DNA are exchanged.
The crossing over of DNA is random and produces genetically different recombinant chromosomes.
Spindle fibres attach to the homologous pairs and line them up at the equator of the spindle.
The orientation of the pairs of homologous chromosomes at the equator is random.
The chromosomes of each homologous pair are separated and move towards opposite poles.
Cytokinesis occurs and two daughter cells form.

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What happens in meiosis 2?

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Each of the two cells produced in meiosis 1 undergoes a further division during which the sister chromatids of each chromosome are separated.

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How is the sex of birds, mammals and some insects determined?

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The sex of birds, mammals and some insects is determined by the presence of sex chromosomes.

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What does a SRY gene on the Y chromosome determine?

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In most mammals the SRY gene on the Y chromosome determines development of male characteristics.

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Where do heterogametic males lack corresponding homologous alleles?

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Heterogametic males lack most of the corresponding homologous alleles on the shorter Y chromosome.

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What does lack in corresponding homologous alleles result in?

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This can result in sex-linked patterns of inhertence as seen with carrier females and affected males.

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What inactivates in early stages of development?

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In homogametic females one of the two X chromosomes present in each cell is randomly inactivated at an early stage of development.

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What does X chromosome inactivation prevent?

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X chromosome inactivation prevents a double dose of gene products, which could be harmful to cells.

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What is less likely to be affected by any deleterious mutations on these X chromosomes?

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Carriers are less likely to be affected by any deleterious mutations on these X chromosomes.

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How do half of the cells in any tissue have working copies of the gene in question?

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As the X chromosome inactivated in each cell is random, half of the cells in ant tissue have a working copy of the gene in question.

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What is hermaphrodites?

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Hermaphrodites are species that have functioning male and female reproductive organs in each individual.

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What do hermaphrodites produce?

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They produce both male and female gametes and usually have a partner with which to exchange gametes.

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What is the benefit of being a hermaphrodite?

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The benefit to the individual organism is that if the chance of encountering a partner is an uncommon event, there is no requirement for that partner to be of the opposite sex.

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What determines the sex and sex ratio?

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Environmental rather than genetic factors determine sex and sex ratio.

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How can sex change?

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Sex can change within individuals of some species as a result of size, competition or parasitic infection.

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How else can the sex ratio of offspring be adjusted?

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In some species the sex ration of offspring can be adjusted in response to resource availability.