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... 1. Mendel also conducted dihybrid crosses- wondered if both traits would always appear together or if they would be expressed independently of each other 2. Mendel discovered phenotypic ratio in F2 generation as always____________regardless of combination traits he used 3. Mendel’s dihybrid crosses ...
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Ch 29 - Unit III Outline (MS-Word)

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Natural selection: Survival of the Fittest Sponge

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... 2. Identify and explain multiple lines of evidence that support the theory of descent with modification (evolution). Include the following evidences in your discussion: direct observation, homologous structures, analogous structures, vestigial structures, fossil record 3. Identify and explain what i ...
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... Homologous structures, both anatomical and molecular, can be used to determine the branching sequence of an evolutionary tree Some homologous characters, such as the genetic code, are shared by all species because they date to the deep ancestral past In contrast, traits that evolved more recently ar ...
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Notes Chapter 16 The Evolution of Populations and Species

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Natural selection works directly on the expression or appearance of

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... Genetic Variation in Populations – Individual variation abounds in populations. • Not all of this variation is heritable. • Only the genetic component of variation is relevant to natural selection. – A population is said to be polymorphic for a ...
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05 ICA 5 Microevolution Rubric

... Student 1.Climate change has led to the evolution of earlier breeding by Yukon red squirrels. Prior to climate change, genotypic and phenotypic variation existed in the population of squirrels, so the frequency of alleles was different. Some squirrels have genotypes that results in a phenotype of ea ...
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Assignment 10 Evolution

... population pressures and adjustments is the cornerstone. They point to mechanisms such as genetic drift (bottleneck and founder effects), gene flow (immigration vs. emigration of genes), mutation (change in DNA structure), and natural selection (stabilizing, directional, or diversifying effects on ...
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... Evolution Versus Genetic Equilibrium If allele frequencies in a population do not change, the population is in genetic equilibrium. Evolution is not taking place. The Hardy-Weinberg Principle states that allele frequencies in a population should remain constant unless one or more factors cause those ...
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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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