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Natur al Selection BIO101 Fall 2011 Key Terms: Genetic Drift Founder Effect Bottleneck Effect Sexual Dimorphism Intrasexual Selection Adaptive Evolution Gene Flow Relative Fitness Gamete Intersexual Selection Directional Selection Disruptive Selection Stabilizing Selection Genetic Diversity Balancing Selection Heterozygote Advantage Frequency-Dependent Selection Neutral Variation Key Questions: • Why is natural selection easier to predict than genetic drift? • Why is “survival of the fittest” not a great description of evolution? • Why do harmful, disease-causing alleles still exist in the human population? Lecture Outline: So what happens when H-W conditions are NOT met? evolution! Natural Selection - difference in reproduction, which typically implies survival leads to adaptive evolution – a species that fits better with it’s environment of course the environment changes too Genetic Drift -differences in allele frequencies due to chance amplified in small populations; can have really be effects on allele frequencies Founder Effect Bottleneck Effect Gene Flow - adding or removing alleles from the population Relative Fitness describes how much an individual contributes to the gene pool in the next generation reflective of the match between an individual and it’s environment relative to the others Natural selection can affect the population in three main ways: Directional selection - current conditions favor one extreme of a phenotype Disruptive selection - disfavors the moderate phenotype and favors either extreme Stabilizing selection - favors the moderate phenotype over either extreme Adaptive Evolution improves the fit between organism and the current environment drift and gene flow will alter the allele frequencies but may or may not improve fitness Sexual selection – focues specifically on obtaining mates, not just survival often leads to sexual dimorphism intrasexual selection – one sex competes for a limited mate. intersexual selection – ore mate choice, one sex chooses to mate with the most fit Why is genetic diversity preserved? one reason is diploidy. allows recessive allele to “hide” Balancing selection – natural selection maintains two or more alleles as advantageous Heterozygote advantage Frequency-Dependent Selection Neutral Variation – many changes have essentially no contribution to fitness at least in the current environment