Download Practice Quiz: AP Biology Chapter 18

Practice Quiz: AP Biology Chapter 18
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What type of evolution is above the species level?
What type of evolution is below the species level?
What is a gene pool?
Name the 5 conditions that must be met in order to maintain the HardyWeinberg equilibrium.
5. What equation do I use if I know the allele frequency? The number of
individuals in a population?
6. If 75% of a population of 425 penguins in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
displays a dominant trait, how many of them would you predict to be
heterozygotes? Homozygous recessives? What are the gene frequencies
for the dominant and recessive alleles?
7. Describe industrial melanism as an example of microevolution.
8. Term: when there are two or more distinct phenotypes present in the
population due to mutated genes.
9. Finish the sentence, mutations may be beneficial…
10. What is another name for gene flow?
11. What is the result of continued gene flow?
12. Which form of mating helps maintain the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?
Disrupts the equilibrium?
13. How does sexual selection contribute to nonrandom mating?
14. What is genetic drift a result of?
15. Name, describe and give an example of two types of genetic drift.
16. Finish the sentence: Better adapted individuals are more likely to…
17. What is fitness?
18. Name, describe and give an example of the three types of selection.
19. What is the problem of lacking in variations?
20. How can variations be maintained under the constant pressure of selection?
21. Name, describe and give an example of heterozygote superiority.
22. What is the biological definition of: a species? reproductive isolating
mechanisms?
23. Name and describe prezygotic and postzygotic isolating mechanisms.
24. Describe allopatric and sympatric speciation.
25. Describe and give an example of adaptive radiation.