BIOL 1005 Chapter : Evolution II Natural Selection Ch

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Be able to describe natural selection and determine between phenotype and genotype. Fitness : the ability of an individual to pass genes to future generations. Major part is number of offspring and their health which will determine evolution. Has nothing to do with physical health of individual. An individual adapted to the local environment likely produces more offspring compared to an offspring who is not well adapted. Natural selection: tendency of an organism that possess adaptations to their environment to survive and pass genes to next generation through reproduction. Tends to result in the removal of a least fit organism from the population; depends on the environment. Some individuals produce more offspring b/c some survive better than others. Acts on the phenotype that is being expressed. But its effects are fixed only for heritable traits (e. g. genotype) of a population. Genotype- genetic make-up of an organism that may or may not be expressed.

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Which statement about evolution by natural selection isfalse?

Natural selection allows organisms with higher fitness toreproduce more successfully.

Natural selection favors those traits that confer higherfitness in the environment.

Natural selection is a random change in characteristics of apopulation over generations.

Evolution by natural selection affects populations oforganisms, not individual organisms.

An organism's fitness depends on its _____.

ability to survive and reproduce

ability to swap genetic material with other organisms

physical size

ability to mutate

population

Consider the heavily armored stickleback fish population thatcolonized the lake. If all the individuals in that population weregenetically identical, what do you predict would happen when theycolonized the freshwater lake?

The population would increase, as it has increased foodresources.

The population would evolve through natural selection to bebetter adapted to its environment.

The population would decrease due to more juvenile fish beingeaten.

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Which of the following are adaptations?

Thicker beaks on finches that allows them to eat large seeds,when large seeds are the most abundant.

Less armor on stickleback fish in freshwater that allows themto grow faster to avoid predation.

More armor on stickleback fish in the ocean that prevents themfrom being eaten by larger predators.

None of the above.

All of the above.

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Describe the theory of natural selection Which of thefollowing BEST describes the theory of natural selection? CHOOSEONE

	1 The genetic make-up of apopulation gradually changes from one generation to the next.
	2 Living organisms change overtime.
	3 Each species produces many moreoffspring than can survive long enough to reproduce. The offspringthat do survive contain genes that are inherited from theparents.
	4 There is variation among themembers of a species. Some of this variation is geneticallydetermined and so can be passed on to future generations.
	5 Some individuals have genes thatincrease their chances for survival and reproduction. Theseindividuals are more likely to reproduce and pass on their genes,causing their genes to become more common in the nextgeneration.
	6 There is a struggle for existenceamong the members of a population.

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44.Why donât similar genotypes always produce the same phenotype?

A. Parent alter their phenotype and pass on this phenotype to progeny

B. Phenotype is the product of many environmental influences

C. Genetic variations of ADH enzyme produce the same phenotype

D. Animals display different phenotypes dependent on diet, not genotype

46.Which of the following attributes has the least effect on the contribution an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation?

A. spas of mating privileges

B. more efficient at obtaining food

C. produces more offspring

D. camouflage from predators

47.âUntil the agricultural evolution 10,000 years ago, people used to live in small populations with little gene flow between them. That is the best situation for rapid evolution.â said Sewall Wright. one of the founders of population genetics. This conclusion on gene flow conflicts with Hardy Weinberg equilibrium, which states that no gene flow means

A. natural selection

B. no evolution

C. no random mating

D. no genetic drift

58 Larval flies (maggots) express the Ubx gene in all of their segments, and thereby lack appendages. If this same gene continued to be expressed throughout subsequent developmental stages, except in the head region, and if the result was a fit, sexually mature organism that still strongly resembled a maggot, this would be an example of

A. homochrony

B. exaptation

C. paedomorphosis.

D. adaptive radiation

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