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MBG 2040 Midterm Practice with 100- correct answers 2025
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MBG*2040 Midterm Practicewith 100% correct answers
2025
inbreeding depression - answer reduction in avg fitness of inbred
individuals relative to that of outbred individuals
landscape genetics - answer field of research that combines population
genetics, landscape ecology, and spatial statistics
population structure - answer the occurrence of populations that are
subdivided by geography, behavior, or other influences that prevent
individuals from mixing completely - leads to deviations from H-W
equilibirium
(refer to population subdivision figure in 6.8) what are the situations in
A,B, and C? - answer A: when landscapes are homogeneous and/or
individuals move readily, populations have little/no subdivision
B: populations may be completely isolated from each other, with almost no
movement in between
C: many populations fall somewhere in between, such that movement
between locations is less frequent than movement within, but still occurs
regularly enough to shuffle alleles from place to place
what does Buri's population of bottled flies tell us? - answer even in
absence of selection, populations will begin to diverge from each other
genetic distance - answer FST; measure of how diff populations are from
each other genetically, can inform scientists about level of inbreeding,
how dramatically populations have diverged in their allele frequencies,
measures amount of population subdivision
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