11:216:269 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eastern Canada, Gene Pool, Bighorn Sheep
12 Sep 2017
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Cost/benefit: there is always a cost and benefit for having a certain behaviour. Evolution: inherited changes over time; comes from latin word evolutio which means. Inherited : pertains to traits and characteristics and behavior; genes passed down from parent to offspring; . Change : mutations: sometimes beneficial: parent and/or offspring will be better adapted in, deleterious: fatal environment (adaptations: environment is constantly changing, time : could occur over generations (short to change) At the : species: individuals that have the potential to interbreed and produce, population: groups of individuals of the . Same species : gene pool - possible genes in that population, linked to the environment - selects for the best environment geographic location . Living in the : competition - for resources that are . Individuals in a population are variable - do not have the same traits, not genetically identical.
