BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Drosophila Pseudoobscura, Germ Plasm, Anemophily

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Dobzhansky began analyzing the genes of wild fruit flies, traveling from canada to mexico to catch members of the species drosophila pseudoobscura. He found that different populations of d. pseudoobscura did not have identical sets of genes. Each population of fruit flies he studied bore distinctive markers in its chromosomes that distinguished it from other populations. Dobzhansky helped discover that different fruit fly populations have different frequencies of two different versions of the same chromosome; chromosome a might be more frequent in one population while chromosome a" is more frequent in a neighboring population. A species is simply a group of animals or plants that reproduces primarily among themselves. Two animals belonging to different species are unlikely to mate, and even if they do, they will rarely produce viable hybrids. New mutations would arise in the isolated population, and natural selection might help them to spread until all the flies carried them.

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