
Microevolution Mechanisms and Effects

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Patricia Brown
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What are the three main causes of microevolution?
Genetic drift, mutation, and recombination
Mutation, recombination, and selection
Natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow
Speciation, adaptation, and mutation
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How does natural selection affect a population?
It decreases the population size
It increases genetic variation
It selects traits that are less suited to the environment
It favors organisms with traits better suited to their environment
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is adaptive evolution?
Evolution that results in a worse match between an organism and its environment
Evolution that results in a better match between an organism and its environment
Evolution that decreases the genetic variation in a population
Evolution that increases the population size
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the founder effect?
A large population is reduced by a catastrophic event
A population undergoes natural selection
A few individuals start a new population with different allele frequencies
A population merges with another population
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the bottleneck effect?
A population experiences an increase in genetic variation
A population is split into two separate populations
A population experiences a severe drop in size due to a catastrophic event
A population undergoes rapid growth
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is a negative consequence of the bottleneck effect?
Increased population size
Enhanced natural selection
Increased genetic variation
Loss of genetic variation
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the primary effect of genetic drift in small populations?
It increases genetic variation
It causes allele frequencies to change randomly
It leads to adaptive evolution
It prevents natural selection
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