BIOL 1001 Chapter : BIOL 1001 Chapter 15 How Populations Evolve

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Evolutionary changes occur from generation to generation causing descendants to differ from their ancestors. Evolution is a property of populations (not individuals) Alleles, genotype, and phenotype in individuals fig. If 20 of those 50 alleles code for black coats, then the frequency of the black allele is 0. 40, or. If allele frequencies change from one generation to the next, the population is evolving. If any of these five conditions are violated, there may be changes in allele frequencies, and the population will evolve. From the conditions that disturb the hardy-weinberg equilibrium, we might predict five major causes of evolutionary change: mutation, gene flow, small population size, non-random mating, natural selection. 15. 4: gene flow increases the genetic similarity of different populations of a species, mixing alleles prevents large differences in genetic compositions of populations. If gene flow between populations is blocked, genetic differences may grow so large that one of the populations becomes a new species!

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