15. Population genetics provides answers for all of thefollowing questions except:
a. What is the frequency ofgenetic disease in a population?
b. What fraction of thephenotypic variation in a trait is the result of geneticvariation?
c. What alleles are most likelyto mutate?
d. Given certain quantifiablevariables, how long is a disease likely to persist?
e. How rapidly can a disease gaina foothold in a population?
16. Which of the following is not one of the assumptions of theHardy-Weinberg law?
a. The population is verylarge.
b. There is non-random matingwithin the population.
c. Mutations in the alleles donot occur.
d. No migration occurs into orout of the population.
e. The ability of all genotypesfor survival and reproduction is the same.
17. The heterozygote genotype frequency term for a gene with twoalternate alleles A (frequency p) and a (frequency q) in theHardy-Weinberg equation is:
a.p2 b.q2 c.2pq d.(p+q)2 e. p+q
18. In humans, brachydactyly is a dominant condition. Sixthousand four hundred people in a population of 10,000 show thedisease (1,600 are BB, 4,800 are Bb) and 3,600 are normalphenotypes (bb). The frequency of the b allele is:
a.0.6 b.0.8 c.0.36 d..48 e. 0.16
19. Fitness is described as:
a. an individualâs ability tosurvive to adulthood
b. an individualâs ability toreproduce
c. an individualâs ability toadapt to change
d. all of the above are true
15. Population genetics provides answers for all of thefollowing questions except:
a. What is the frequency ofgenetic disease in a population?
b. What fraction of thephenotypic variation in a trait is the result of geneticvariation?
c. What alleles are most likelyto mutate?
d. Given certain quantifiablevariables, how long is a disease likely to persist?
e. How rapidly can a disease gaina foothold in a population?
16. Which of the following is not one of the assumptions of theHardy-Weinberg law?
a. The population is verylarge.
b. There is non-random matingwithin the population.
c. Mutations in the alleles donot occur.
d. No migration occurs into orout of the population.
e. The ability of all genotypesfor survival and reproduction is the same.
17. The heterozygote genotype frequency term for a gene with twoalternate alleles A (frequency p) and a (frequency q) in theHardy-Weinberg equation is:
a.p2 b.q2 c.2pq d.(p+q)2 e. p+q
18. In humans, brachydactyly is a dominant condition. Sixthousand four hundred people in a population of 10,000 show thedisease (1,600 are BB, 4,800 are Bb) and 3,600 are normalphenotypes (bb). The frequency of the b allele is:
a.0.6 b.0.8 c.0.36 d..48 e. 0.16
19. Fitness is described as:
a. an individualâs ability tosurvive to adulthood
b. an individualâs ability toreproduce
c. an individualâs ability toadapt to change
d. all of the above are true
