Evolutionary Analysis Tests Bundle Set

Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium principle states Answer allele frequencies in a population will not change from generation to generation; if allele frequencies are p and q, genotype frequencies will be p^2, 2pq, q^2 mechanisms of evolution Answer drift, selection, migration, mutation population gen...

genetic variation Answer differences in alleles or genotype as shown by various phenotypes How was genetic variation studied early on? Answer they studied proteins, because different proteins are produced by genetic variations. (doesn't show variation in substitutions though) allele example A...

Lamarck Answer in 1809 that all species are derived from gradual evolution. He guessed it was driven by the inheritance of acquired traits. Said simple life forms are spontaneously generated from nonliving matter. His ideas were popular until the 1930s Vestigial structure Answer remnant of a stru...

First in number of people infected with HIV Answer Sub Saharan Africa Second in number of people infected with HIV Answer India and Southeast Asia Third in number of people infected with HIV Answer North America Fourth in number of people infected with HIV Answer China fifth in numbe...

Adaptation Answer a trait or integrated suite of traits that increases the fitness of its possessor • Differences among populations or species are not always adaptive • Not every trait of an organism use of every trait by an organism is an adaptation • Not every adaptation is perfec...

Sections 2.1 - 2.5 summarize evidence for Evolution. Some evidence had been available to Darwin and his contemporaries, but the majority of the evidence came later, in the 20th century. For example, Darwin was aware of the following: Answer Vestigial structures Geological evidence for mass extincti...

Describe in your own words the difference between an experimental study, an observational study, and a comparative study. What sorts of questions are they each suited for (i.e., why don't researchers always use the experimental method)? Give an example of each type of study from this chapter. Answe...

The pope said " (HIV) cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, they increase it" Is the popes first statement correct? How about his second statement? How do we know? Answer The Pope's first statement is that Africa's problem with HIV/AIDS "cannot be overcome by th...

Successful artificial selection, such as that practiced by plant and animal breeders to modify their crops and livestock, depends on which of the following? Answer All of these are necessary for artificial selection to take place. Darwin's postulates must be true for selection to occur, whether...

When genotypes at one locus of a chromosome are independent of genotypes at another locus of the same chromosome, the two loci are ________. Answer in linkage equilibrium When genotypes at one locus of a chromosome are nonrandomly associated with the genotypes at another locus of the same chromos...

Charles Darwin was the first scientist to suggest that species had changed over time. a. True b. False Answer False What has come to be known as the "modern evolutionary synthesis" began in the 1930s and 1940s. What did it involve? a. The incorporation of the ideas of developmental biology i...

Charles Darwin was the first scientist to suggest that species had changed over time. a. True b. False Answer False What has come to be known as the "modern evolutionary synthesis" began in the 1930s and 1940s. What did it involve? a. The incorporation of the ideas of developmental biology i...