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MECHANISMS FOR EVOLUTION CHAPTER 20 • Objectives – State the Hardy-Weinburg theorem – Write the Hardy-Weinburg equation and be able to use it to calculate allele and genotype frequencies – List the conditions that must be met to maintain Hardy Weinburg equilibrium VOCABULARY • • • • • • • POPULATION SPECIES GENE POOL GENE FLOW BOTTLENECK EFFECT FOUNDER EFFECT HETEROZYGOTE ADVANTAGE • HYBRID VIGOR • STABILIZING SELECTION • DIRECTIONAL SELECTION • DIVERSIFYING SELECTION • SEXUAL DIMORPHISM • POPULATION – Localized group belonging to the same species • SPECIES – Naturally breeding group of organisms that produce fertile offspring • GENE POOL – Total aggregate of genes in a population at any one time Most species are not evenly distributed over a geographic range. Individuals are more likely to breed with others from their population center HARDY – WEINBURG THEOREM • Describes a NON-EVOLVING population • In the absence of other factors the segregation and recombination of alleles during meiosis and fertilization will not alter the overall genetic make-up of a population • Imagine an isolated wildflower population with the following characteristics – Diploid with both pink and white flowers – Pink is dominant A and white is recessive a – There are 480 pink flowers and 20 white • 320 are AA • 160 are Aa (p + q)2 = 1 p+q=1 p2 + 2pq +q2 = 1 • • • • • p2 = frequency of AA 2pq = frequency of Aa q2 = frequency of aa Calculate q2 first There are 1000 alleles – AA -- 320 x 2/plant = 640 – Aa --160 x 1/plant = 160 800 – aa -- 20 x 2/plant = 40 – Aa – 160 x 1/plant =160 – 200 – Frequency of A = 80% and a = 20% Condition for Hardy-Weinburg • • • • • Large population No net mutation Isolated population Random mating No natural selection MICROEVOLUTION LEADS TO MACROEVOLUTION MECHANISMS FOR EVOLUTION • DO POPULATIONS OR INDIVIDUALS EVOLVE? • WHAT IS A GENE POOL • HOW CAN THE GENE POOL CHANGE? – MUTATION – GENETIC DRIFT – GENE FLOW – NON-RANDOM MATING – NATURAL SELECTION • WOULD THESE THINGS EFFECT A LARGE POPULATION OR A SMALL POPULATION MORE? Life Sciences-HHMI Outreach. Copyright 2006 President and Fellows of Harvard College. CAUSES OF MICROEVOLUTION • MUTATIONS – provide new alleles in a population and provide the variation for evolution to occur, should the mutation lead to some adaptive advantage. – Mutation alone does not cause evolution, but provide a selective advantage that due to natural selection can lead to a shift in allele frequency. CAUSES OF MICROEVOLUTION • GENETIC DRIFT – in small populations the frequencies of alleles can be drastically affected by chance events – BOTTLENECK EFFECT – if populations are driven to the point of extinction the remaining individuals do not carry a true representation of the original gene pool. – FOUNDER EFFECT – when a small number of individuals colonize a new area they only carry with them a small representation of the total number of the alleles from the gene pool. • GENE FLOW – genetic exchange between populations due to migration • NONRANDON MATING – Breed with other members of the “neighborhood” promotes inbreeding – Assortative mating – mate with others like themselves . This is the premise behind artificial selection. CAUSES OF MICROEVOLUTION • NATURAL SELECTION – any environmental factor that leads to a particular allele having some adaptive advantage. • There are three ways that natural selection can affect the frequency of traits: – Stabilizing selection – Directional selection – Disruptive selection Page 693 Variation within Populations • Most heritable variation is measured by – Quantitative characters (vary along a continuum ie. Height) are polygenetic – Discrete characters (pink or white) are located on a single gene • Polymorphism – two or more forms of a discrete character are represented in a population GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION A cline is a graded change in some trait along a geographical axis. MODES OF SELECTION