Population Genetics

Which of the following is part of Darwin's theory of evolution?

• Geographic isolation will cause speciation

• Organisms will create mutations that will all them to survive better

• The organisms that can adapt best to their environment will survive

• Natural Selection is caused by a natural disaster

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Which of the following is an example of natural selection?

• Dark mice can hide from predators more easily than light colored mice

• Mice compete for food, shelter and mates

• A mutation occurs to an allele causing mice to be dark, light and now grey

• Mice migrate to the other side of a mountain, causing speciation

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Then a tiger and a lion mate, they create a liger. The tiger and lion are not the same species because:

• The liger is not able to adapt to its environment

• The liger does not live long after it is born

• The liger is not a real animal

• The liger is not able to reproduce

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Which of the following is NOT part of the founder effect

• Some members of the group migrate

• The new population can have a different allele frequency

• Both the original population and new population survive

• Can be caused by a natural disaster

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The term "fit" means that those members can live longer.

• True

• False

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Having a small gene pool can lead to extinction

• True

• False

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A large highway separates a population of mountain lions resulting in what type of speciation?

• sympatric

• allopatric

• founder

• directional

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An example of temporal isolation is when one plant blooms in June while another in September

• True

• False

If there are 50 flowers, 30 red (RR), 15 pink (Rr) and 5 white (r), what the frequency of the recessive allele?

• 5%

• 10%

• 20%

• 25%

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Suppose wing span is a polygenetic trait. Those with both very large and very small wing spans do not survive. This is:

• Disruptive selection

• Stabilizing selection

• Directional selection

• Divergent selection

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