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Define microevolution. Are these processes repeatable and reversible, or creative and unique?

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Individuals and populations (species and below) over a generational time scale (repeatable and reversible)

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Define macroevolution. Are these processes repeatable and reversible, or creative and unique?

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Species level and above over an evolutionary time scale (creative and unique)

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A phylogenetic tree shows __________.

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Relationships over time (common ancestors are not living, today)

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If the time for life on earth were compared to height of the CN tower in Toronto, then humans would measure only ________

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Around 1cm

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What is denoted as the common ancestor for the homo genus?

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Homo ergaster

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Diploid

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2n or copies of a genome

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Haploid

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N or one genome

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Genome divided into

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Chromosomal pieces

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________ chromosomes = haploid

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23

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______ chromosomes = diploid

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46

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What happens in sexual dimorphism and reproduction?

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Haploid gamete cells join to reproduce a diploid cell

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Each human _________ is a single linear DNA molecule with a string of nucleotides that spell out _________ and other information

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  • chromosome
  • genes
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The total DNA in all the chromosomes of an organism is its _________

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Genome

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True or False?
A complete genome is nearly always found in every cell

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True

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15
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Humans have 46 chromosomes that are in 23 pairs within ____________

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A cell’s nucleus

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16
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What are pairs of chromosomes called?

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Homologous chromosomes

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17
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What are autosomes?

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The 22 pairs of chromosomes that control traits that do not relate to the gender of an individual

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What are sex chromosomes?

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The 1 pair of chromosomes that contains the genes that establish gender or sexual dimorphism

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What are somatic cells? Are they diploid or haploid?

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Body cells have 46 (2N) = diploid

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What are germ cells? Are they diploid or haploid?

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Sex cells or gametes have 23 (N) = haploid

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21
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Paternal gamete = _______

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Sperm

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Maternal gamete = ________

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Ovum

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True or False?
Mitochrondria have their own genome

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True (mtDNA)

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True or False?
Sperm contribute to mitochrondria

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False

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True or False? Genes on the X chromosome determines the male sex
False (the Y chromosome)
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True or False? The Y chromosome lacks many genes normally found on the X chromosome
True (the Y chromosome is much smaller than the X chromosome and therefore lacks many genes compared to the X chromosome)
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Mitosis
- Growth and repair of cells - Occurs in body cells - 1 division - Results in 2 diploid genetically identical cells
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Meiosis
- Formation of gametes - Occurs in germ cells - 2 divisions - Results in 4 haploid genetically different cells
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How many potential combinations of chromosomes does meiosis provide?
Maternal and paternal chromosomes get shuffled - 2^23 = 8,388,608 potential combinations
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Meiosis provides 2 routes for increasing __________ in the next generation: __________ and ____________
- Variation - Independent assortment - Crossing-over
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Define genotype
Specific allele combination that is related to a particular trait (or set of traits)
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Define homozygous
Diploid state carrying 2 identical alleles at a particular gene or locus
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Define heterozygous
Diploid state carrying 2 different alleles at a particular gene or locus
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Define phenotype
The physical or outward expression of the genotype, aka a trait
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Define mutation
Any heritable change in DNA sequence (excluding meiosis recombination)
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Define alleles
Alternate forms of a specific gene or locus
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Define dominant allele
A gene version that displays its phenotype when present as only 1 copy as in a heterozygote
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Define recessive allele
A gene version displays its phenotype only when present as 2 copies as in a homozygote
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Define wild type allele
A way to refer to a ‘normal’ allele or one not associated with a defect or disease trait
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Define rare allele
Typically, a frequency of <0.005%
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Define codominant or semidominant
Diploid with both alleles contributing to trait
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Define hemizygous
Diploid with only 1 allele (e.g. all male X chromosome alleles)
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Define haploinsufficiency
A situation where a single wild type allele is insufficient for normal function
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Define penetrance
The frequency with which a particular allele or genotype manifests a trait
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Define expressivity
The extent or magnitude of an expressed trait with a particular allele/genotype
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Define polygenic
Multiple genes contribute to a phenotype or trait
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Define pleiotropic
A single gene contributes to multiple traist
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Define sex linked
Traits that are determined by genes on the X or Y chromosome
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What are 4 evolutionary forces that cause change over time?
1. Mutation (because of deletions/insertions in genome) 2. Natural selection (more fit = reproduce) 3. Genetic drift 4. Gene flow (immigration, new alleles to new places)
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What are 4 types of mutations? (Big to small)
1. Whole chromosomes - aneuploidy (gain or loss = trisomy or monosomy) 2. Chromosome segments (inversions, translocations) 3. Insertions/deletions 4. Substitutions (typically confined to a change in a single bp)
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Define single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)
Mutation of a single nucleotide or bp (can be substitution or indel)
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Define transition
Purine to purine and pyrimidine to pyrimidine
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Define transversion
Purine to pyrimidine and vice versa
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Define missense or non-synonymous
Substitution that alters amino acid coding
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Define synonymous
Substitution that does not alter amino acid coding
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Define nonsense
Substitution that introduces stop codon and truncates protein
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Define frameshift
Indel that results in a change in the reading frame (code is shifted)
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Define neutral
A mutation that does not obviously affect fitness or produce a phenotypic trait (selection forces do not apply to such mutations)
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What are the pyrimidines?
CT (very close in structure)
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What are the purines?
GA (very close in structure)
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The effect of natural selection depends on: ___________
Whether a trait is favoured in a particular local environment and it is easily modelled
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If we have 2 alleles (different version of gene), A and a, if the frequency of A is 1, what is the frequency of a?
0 (frequency must add to 1)
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Define balancing selection
This is a form of selection where the heterozygote is the most fit, which leads to a balance in allele frequencies (although AA is more fit than aa, it does not replace it - the final frequencies represent a balance)
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What are 2 key points of genetic drift?
- It’s by chance - It’s faster in a small population (think of grabbing handful of smarties from large bowl and small bowl)
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Define genetic drift
The random chance in allele frequency from one generation to the next because of the basic probability (allele frequency may increase, decrease, or stay the same as a result of chance events during reproduction)
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When does gene flow occur?
When an individual from one population moves into another population
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2 major effects of gene flow on allele frequency
1. New genes can be introduced into a population 2. Gene flow between a pair of populations makes them increasingly more genetically similar over time because of the mixing of genes
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True or False? The word population usually refers to the number of the entire species
False (it does not usually refer to the number of the entire species)
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What are 2 assumptions regarding mathematical modelling for population genetics?
1. Random mating 2. Non-overlapping generations
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True or False? In sexual organisms, genotypes (2N) are transmitted from generation to generation
False (rather, alleles are transferred through haploid gametes (N): oocytes and sperm)
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Mating pairs mate at the same frequencies as __________
Random collisions between genotypes
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Non-random mating is also called __________
Assortative mating
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True or False? 1 breeding generation is present at any time
True

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