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... • located inside the nucleus of cells. • made of DNA which carries genetic information from parent to offspring. Humans have 46 total chromosomes. • 23 in each sex cell. Grasshoppers have 24 chromosomes. • 12 in each sex cell. Dogs have 78 chromosomes. • 39 in each sex cell. House flies have 12 chro ...
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... individuals can taste this bitter chemical, although homozygous-recessive (aa) individuals cannot. Use your class as a representative population to calculate the frequencies of the two alleles with the Hardy–Weinberg equation 1. Obtain a piece of PTC test paper. Note: Use each strip of PTC and contr ...
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Genetic drift



Genetic drift (or allelic drift) is the change in the frequency of a gene variant (allele) in a population due to random sampling of organisms.The alleles in the offspring are a sample of those in the parents, and chance has a role in determining whether a given individual survives and reproduces. A population's allele frequency is the fraction of the copies of one gene that share a particular form. Genetic drift may cause gene variants to disappear completely and thereby reduce genetic variation.When there are few copies of an allele, the effect of genetic drift is larger, and when there are many copies the effect is smaller. In the early twentieth century vigorous debates occurred over the relative importance of natural selection versus neutral processes, including genetic drift. Ronald Fisher, who explained natural selection using Mendelian genetics, held the view that genetic drift plays at the most a minor role in evolution, and this remained the dominant view for several decades. In 1968, Motoo Kimura rekindled the debate with his neutral theory of molecular evolution, which claims that most instances where a genetic change spreads across a population (although not necessarily changes in phenotypes) are caused by genetic drift. There is currently a scientific debate about how much of evolution has been caused by natural selection, and how much by genetic drift.
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