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Evolution Review - LFHS AP Biology
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... generation to the next if the population is large and there is no natural selection. b. only natural selection, resulting in unequal reproductive success, will cause evolution. c. the square root of the frequency of individuals showing the recessive trait will always equal the frequency of q. d. gen ...
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...  Ex: several thousand salmon eggs, not all hatch, a few hundred survive disease or predation, several dozen reach adulthood, and few will successfully reproduce Genetic variation: differences in DNA in a population ...
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class notes powerpoint - Social Circle City Schools

... 200 years ago, the ancestors of apple maggot flies laid their eggs only on hawthorns — but today, these flies lay eggs on hawthorns (which are native to America) and domestic apples (which were introduced to America by immigrants and bred). Females generally choose to lay their eggs on the type of f ...
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... 4. I am the process in which unrelated species evolve similar traits while adapting to similar environments.________________________ ____________________________ 5. I am a pattern of evolution that is seen in the fossil record; I consist of short periods with lots of evolutionary activity, followed ...
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... ◦ First, a change in environmental conditions can lead to such an adaptation only for genetic traits already present in a population’s gene pool or for traits resulting from mutations, which occur randomly. ◦ Second, even if a beneficial heritable trait is present in a population, the population’s a ...
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... particular environment pass on more of their genes to the next generation is called natural selection. • Where do the differences in the genes within individuals come from? – Mutation - changes in DNA sequence that occur by chance (random mistakes in DNA replication, exposure to radiation, etc.) ...
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Inclusive fitness

In evolutionary biology inclusive fitness theory is a model for the evolution of social behaviors (traits), first set forward by W. D. Hamilton in 1963 and 1964. Instead of a trait's frequency increase being thought of only via its average effects on an organism's direct reproduction, Hamilton argued that its average effects on indirect reproduction, via identical copies of the trait in other individuals, also need to be taken into account. Hamilton's theory, alongside reciprocal altruism, is considered one of the two primary mechanisms for the evolution of social behaviors in natural species.From the gene's point of view, evolutionary success ultimately depends on leaving behind the maximum number of copies of itself in the population. Until 1964, it was generally believed that genes only achieved this by causing the individual to leave the maximum number of viable direct offspring. However, in 1964 W. D. Hamilton showed mathematically that, because other members of a population may share identical genes, a gene can also increase its evolutionary success by indirectly promoting the reproduction and survival of such individuals. The most obvious category of such individuals is close genetic relatives, and where these are concerned, the application of inclusive fitness theory is often more straightforwardly treated via the narrower kin selection theory.Belding's ground squirrel provides an example. The ground squirrel gives an alarm call to warn its local group of the presence of a predator. By emitting the alarm, it gives its own location away, putting itself in more danger. In the process, however, the squirrel may protect its relatives within the local group (along with the rest of the group). Therefore, if the effect of the trait influencing the alarm call typically protects the other squirrels in the immediate area, it will lead to the passing on of more of copies of the alarm call trait in the next generation than the squirrel could leave by reproducing on its own. In such a case natural selection will increase the trait that influences giving the alarm call, provided that a sufficient fraction of the shared genes include the gene(s) predisposing to the alarm call.Synalpheus regalis, a eusocial shrimp, also is an example of an organism whose social traits meet the inclusive fitness criterion. The larger defenders protect the young juveniles in the colony from outsiders. By ensuring the young's survival, the genes will continue to be passed on to future generations.Inclusive fitness is more generalized than strict kin selection, which requires that the shared genes are identical by descent. Inclusive fitness is not limited to cases where ""kin"" ('close genetic relatives') are involved.
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