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Which of the following is most likely as a population goes through a bottleneck?

Heterozygosity decreases because genetic distance increases.

Genetic diversity increases because mutation rate increases while the population is going through the bottleneck

. Genetic diversity decreases because some alleles can be lost as the number of individuals dwindles

. The proportion of individuals that are heterozygous increases because there are fewer individuals.

2)What is meant when it says that genetic drift produces "non-adaptive" evolution?

Sometimes natural selection can favor a trait that is good for the current conditions, but when conditions change it is no longer helpful.

Evolution is just a genetic change in a population. If genes are lost from a population due to chance (i.e. genetic drift), that may not be adaptive, meaning the remaining organisms are no more fit.

Evolution isn't perfect, and sometimes it makes mistakes.

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Q1. What is the founder effect?

Sampling error that occurs during the establishment of a newpopulation by a small number of migrants.

Strong natural selection acting on the founders of a newpopulation because the environment they are now living in is sodifferent from the environment they came from.

A phenomenon named after William Founder, who observed that toppredators generally have low genetic diversity.

Rapid population growth following a bottleneck.

Q2. The effects of genetic drift are more pronounced in largerpopulations.

True

False

Q3. Inbreeding tends to increase the proportion of homozygousindividuals in a population (i.e. individuals that have two copiesof the same allele).

True

False

Q4. The effective size of a population is:

The size of an idealized randomly-mating population that is notunder selection and has the same heterozygosity as the actualpopulation.

The size of an idealized randomly-mating population that has thesame heterozygosity as the actual population, but does not loseheterozygosity over time.

The size of an idealized randomly-mating population losinghomozygosity at the same rate as the actual population.

The size of an idealized randomly-mating population losingheterozygosity at the same rate as the actual population.

Q5. Which of the following tends to reduce the effective size ofa population?

Check all that apply:

Increasing the population size.

A biased sex ratio.

Non-random mating.

Q6. If gametes from a gene pool combine randomly to make only asmall number of zygotes, the allele frequencies among the zygotesmay be different than they were in the gene pool because:

The effects of natural selection are more pronounced in smallpopulations.

The effects of genetic drift over several generations are morepronounced with small numbers of gametes.

The effects of differences in frequencies for different allelesare more pronounced with small numbers of zygotes.

The effects of sampling error are more pronounced with smallsamples.

Q7. Genetic drift is different from natural selectionbecause:

In natural selection allele frequencies change because somealleles confer higher fitness, whereas in genetic drift allelefrequencies change because of chance sampling error.

Natural selection acts primarily in large populations, whereasgenetic drift acts primarily in small ones.

Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution, whereas geneticdrift is an outcome of evolution.

Natural selection tends to cause rapid evolution, whereasgenetic drift tends to cause slow evolution.

Q8. Imagine a population evolving by genetic drift in which thefrequency of allele K is 0.65. What is the probability that at somepoint in the future allele K will drift to a frequency of 1?

Q9. A dwindling population of 1000 frogs occupies an isolatedwatershed in Costa Rica. To help preserve the species, scientistscaught 20 frogs to start a new population in a nearby watershed.This species has a gene that affects eye shape. The 1000-memberwild population has two alleles for this gene: R and r, withfrequencies 0.7 and 0.3, respectively. What will be the allelefrequencies of R and r in the 20-member founder population?

The frequencies will be 0.7 for R and 0.3 for r.

The frequencies will be 1.0 for R and 0 for r.

The expected frequencies are 0.7 for R and 0.3 for r. The actualfrequencies could be different.

The founder populations's allele frequencies will necessarily bedifferent than the source population's frequencies.

Q10. For a population containing 90 females and 10 males, whatis the effective population size, N_e ?

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1) Which of these probabilities are NOT independent of eachother?

The probability that a student is a sophomore and has brownhair

The probability that when you roll two dice, you will roll a 6before a 2

The probability that it will rain and the probability ofneeding an umbrella

The probability that there will be heavy traffic on BaltimoreAve and the probability you will lose your cell phone

2) We are defining evolution as a "change in allele frequenciesover time". Ironically, the focus of this lab is the Hardy-Weinbergequilibrium - conditions that, if all met, will result in NOevolution occurring. Which of the following are among theconditions that must be met for the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium toapply perfectly to a population?

A. The population must be very large

B. Individuals must mate at random

C. The alleles must differ in their effects on survival

D. There must be free migration into and out of thepopulation

A & B

A, B, & C

3)In cats, black fur is dominant over any allele for brown fur.If a homozygous dominant cat makes kittens with a heterozygous cat,what is the probability that the first kitten will have brown fur?Report as a proportion, not percentage, e.g., .1, NOT 10%.

The EGLN1 gene helps regulate body oxygen levels. One allele His dominant over h, and helps increase fitness at high altitude(where oxygen is low). In a study of families in Tibet, researchersfound 422 HH individuals, 377 Hh, and 201 hh individuals. The studyshowed that infant mortality was lower in Hh individuals than hh,and lowest in HH individuals.
Is the Tibetan population in Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium at this H/hgene?

What is the most important factor affecting the strength ofgenetic drift?

The frequency of the rarest genotype

The size of the population

The allele frequencies

The genetic diversity in the population

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Q49. Which of the following is NOT true?

If a genetic disease reduces fertility and the allele thatcauses the disease offers no other advantage, the allele willlikely eventually disappear, due to natural selection.

Natural selection does not favor individuals who are homozygousfor the sickle-cell allele, because these individuals typically diebefore they are old enough to reproduce.

Individuals who are heterozygous HbA/HbS areprotected from malaria, and this is why sickle-cell diseasepersists in wetter, mosquito-prone regions in Africa.

In regions where malaria does not occur, individuals who areheterozygous HbA/HbS have a fitness advantageover those who are homozygous for the normal hemoglobin allele(HbA).

Q50. AFTER malaria is cured, the frequency of the HbSallele should decrease in regions with lots of mosquitoesbecause:

People will no longer die from sickle-cell disease in theseregions.

Having one copy of the HbS allele will no longer beadvantageous in these regions.

Natural selection will no longer act on the HbS alleleat all in these regions.

All alleles associated with genetic diseases eventuallydisappear.

Q52. If the frequency ofthe HbS allele is 0.4 in a population, what is thefrequency of the HbAallele (assuming this is atwo-allele system)?

Q53. Which of the following would be sufficient for theHardy-Weinberg equation to accurately predict genotype frequenciesfrom allele frequencies?

p + q = 1

The population is not evolving due to natural selection.

The population is not evolving due to any of the conditions thatdisrupt Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

The population is infinitely large.

Q54. In a village, if the proportion of individuals who havesickle-cell disease is 0.25, and the population is assumed to be atHardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what is the expected frequency of theHbS allele? (Hint: What is the genotype of people withsickle-cell disease, and how is that genotype represented in theHardy-Weinberg equation?)

0.1250.250.50.75

Q55. In the same village, what proportion of the populationshould be heterozygous HbA/HbS, according to theHardy-Weinberg equation?

Use the following passage to answer the nextthree questions.

It has been hypothesized that people who are heterozygous forthe allele that causes the deadly genetic condition cystic fibrosis(which, among other symptoms, reduces fertility) are more resistantto the deadly disease tuberculosis.

Q56. If the cystic fibrosis allele protects against tuberculosisthe same way the sickle-cell allele protects against malaria, thenwhich of the following should be true of a comparison betweenregions with and without tuberculosis?

Cystic fibrosis deaths should be more common in regions withtuberculosis.

Cystic fibrosis deaths should be less common in regions withtuberculosis.

Cystic fibrosis deaths should be equally common in both types ofregions.

Regional differences in the cystic fibrosis death rate should bepurely random and unpredictable.

Q57. A person who is heterozygous for the cystic fibrosis allelemoves to a small, isolated community where no one previouslycarried the allele. If the cystic fibrosis allele protects againsttuberculosis the same way the sickle-cell allele protects againstmalaria, what should happen to the frequency of the cystic fibrosisallele in the community over time, and why?

The cystic fibrosis allele should disappear from the population,because a single individual with the allele is not enough for it toproliferate.

The cystic fibrosis allele should increase to a relatively highfrequency, because heterozygotes with the allele will be morelikely to survive than others.

The cystic fibrosis allele should become fixed in thepopulation, due to genetic drift.

The cystic fibrosis allele should either disappear or increasein frequency, depending on chance as well as on tuberculosisprevalence and death rate.

Use the following additional passage to answer the nextquestion.

Suppose you travel to the future, to a time when neithercystic fibrosis nor tuberculosis have caused any deaths for manygenerations. In all of these future populations, thecystic fibrosis allele still exists at a low frequency.

Q58. You visit a huge city with millions of people. If you wereto start sampling the cystic fibrosis allele from one generation tothe next, what should happen to its frequency over the next fewgenerations, and why?

The allele frequency should change a lot from one generation tothe next due to random genetic drift.

The allele frequency should not change much from one generationto the next because the population is large.

The allele frequency should steadily increase due to naturalselection.

The allele frequency should steadily decrease due to naturalselection.