Natural selection can alter variation in a population by passing on beneficial traits to the next generation while weeding out harmful mutations. Evidence that modern species evolved from prior species includes the fossil record showing changes in earlier species, chemical and anatomical similarities between related life forms, geographic distribution of related species, and genetic changes observed over many generations in living organisms. The Hardy-Weinberg equation for predicting gene frequencies is more accurate under conditions of little gene flow between populations.
Natural selection can alter variation in a population by passing on beneficial traits to the next generation while weeding out harmful mutations. Evidence that modern species evolved from prior species includes the fossil record showing changes in earlier species, chemical and anatomical similarities between related life forms, geographic distribution of related species, and genetic changes observed over many generations in living organisms. The Hardy-Weinberg equation for predicting gene frequencies is more accurate under conditions of little gene flow between populations.
Natural selection can alter variation in a population by passing on beneficial traits to the next generation while weeding out harmful mutations. Evidence that modern species evolved from prior species includes the fossil record showing changes in earlier species, chemical and anatomical similarities between related life forms, geographic distribution of related species, and genetic changes observed over many generations in living organisms. The Hardy-Weinberg equation for predicting gene frequencies is more accurate under conditions of little gene flow between populations.
Natural selection can alter variation in a population by passing on beneficial traits to the next generation while weeding out harmful mutations. Evidence that modern species evolved from prior species includes the fossil record showing changes in earlier species, chemical and anatomical similarities between related life forms, geographic distribution of related species, and genetic changes observed over many generations in living organisms. The Hardy-Weinberg equation for predicting gene frequencies is more accurate under conditions of little gene flow between populations.
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1/ 2
Chapter 13
1. How can natural selection alter variation in a population?
Variation naturally occurs in populations as new traits arise from random mutations. However, through natural selection only those traits that are beneficial to the organism are passed on to the next generation. Any harmful mutations are naturally weeded out.
2. What can provide evidence that modern species have evolved from prior species? Fossil record of change in earlier species, the chemical and anatomical similarities of related life forms, the geographic distribution of related species and the recorded genetic changes in living organisms over many generations can provide evidence that modern species have evolved from prior species. 3. What condition would tend to make the Hardy-Weinberg equation more accurate for predicting the gene frequencies of future generations in a population of sexually reproducing species?
Little gene flow with surrounding populations
4. Tay-Sachs is inherited as an autosomal recessive allele. Homozygous individuals die within the first few years of life. However, there is some evidence that heterozygous individuals are more resistant to tuberculosis. Why? This situation is an example of heterozygote advantage if tuberculosis is present in a population 5. What promotes genetic variation in a population? 6. Natural selection cannot fashion perfect organisms. Explain. 7. In what sense is natural selection more of an editing process than a creative process? 8. Explain how the phrase survival of the fittest differs from the biological definition of fitness?
Chapter 14
1. What are the several ways to define species? 2. What are the reproductive barriers between species? Give an example for each barrier. 3. Explain why allopatric speciation would be less likely in an island close to a mainland than on a more isolated island? 4. What is the significance of polyploidy on speciation? 5. Discuss adaptive radiation. Chapter 15 1. What conditions on early Earth made the origin of life possible? 2. Cite important event of the following stages: Stage 1: abiotic synthesis of organic molecules Stage 2: the formation of polymers Stage 3: packaging of polymers into protobionts Stage 4: self-replication 3. Based on the Geologic Time Scale list down in table form the major events in each period. 4. What are the mechanisms of macroevolution?
