BIO 281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Heritability, Peromyscus, Field Experiment
23 Oct 2015
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2: natural selection: acts to optimize phenotypes or traits in a given environment, adaptation : trait that makes an individual better able to survive, the, particular environment being the key words and reproduce in a particular environment, successful reproduction is the goal. 2: you cannot predict where a mutation is going to occur, allele : a new version of a gene the effect of a mutation on an organism"s f itness is random, positive effect: benefits the individual, negative: harms the individual, neutral: no effect or neither harms nor benefits (1) wobble theory : mutation is on the third letter of the codon, (2) the variation just does not have an effect. so no amino acid change, key point : mutations cannot be forced or encouraged, they just randomly occur and may or may not have an effect on the organism.
