BILD 3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Natural Selection 2, Allele Frequency, Dna Replication

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30 May 2016

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UCSD

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Biology/Lower Division

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BILD 3

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Sarah Stockwell

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Microevolution: a change in allele frequencies in a population over generations. 3 main mechanisms that can cause allele frequency change. Differences among individuals in the composition of their genes or other dna sequences. At the whole gene level, it can be quantified as the average percentage of loci that are heterozygous. Can also be measured at the molecular level of dna, but little of this variation results in phenotypic variation because many of the differences occur within introns. Those that do occur on the exons don"t alter the amino acid sequence, so still little variation. Originates when mutation, gene duplication, or other processes produce new alleles and new genes. Can be produced in short periods of time in organisms that reproduce rapidly. New alleles can arise by mutation, a change in the nucleotide sequence of an organism"s. Only mutations in cell lines that produce gametes can be passed to offspring.

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Fill in the blank, each word can be used more than once.

word bank- crossing over, avoid predation, reproduce,independent assortment, phenotypes, frequencies, nucleotides,meiosis, protein, prophase, segregation, gene, allele, amino acids,fertilization, arrangement, chromosome.

A(n) _________ is one of multiple forms of the same gene.

These different forms of genes are in the same locus of a(n)_________, but they have slightly different sequences of________.

During ________ I of meiosis, genes of homologous chromosomesalign side-by-side.

Then in a process called _________, homologous chromosomesrandomly line up double-file at the center of the cell and thenseperate. Since alleles are randomly distributed, this processcreates variation among the gametes. After ________ with a gametefrom the other sex, variation among gametes will create variationamong the offspring.

Some offspring will have a more favorable combination of allelesthan others, and will therefore survive and ________ moresuccessfully, leading to more favorable alleles in the nextgeneration. However, sometimes conditions change, andonce-favorable phenotypes may becomes less favorable.

Scientists hope that they will soon be able to use biotechnologyto track the ________ of alleles over multiple generations, therebywatching evolution as it occurs.

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Q1. What are alleles?Different forms of the same gene.Different genes.The different characteristics of an organism.Genes found only in humans.Q2. If you add up the frequency of homozygotes + the frequency of heterozygotes for one gene (i.e. at one locus) in a population, what number do you get?Q3. People who are heterozygous for the sickle-cell allele:Are susceptible to malaria but not sickle-cell anemia.Are susceptible to sickle-cell anemia but not malaria.Are not susceptible to either sickle-cell anemia or malaria.Are susceptible to both sickle-cecell anemia and malaria.Q4. In the case study in this lab, which genotype is represented by "2pq" in the Hardy-Weinberg equation?Homozygous HbAHomozygous HbSHeterozygous HbA/HbSNo specific genotypeQ5. Suppose that, in an isolated village, the proportion of individuals that have sickle-cell anemia is 0.1 (or 1 of every 10 people). What proportion of the population should be sickle-cell carriers, according to Hardy-Weinberg expectations?Q6. When you simulated the elimination of malaria at the beginning of the lab, once the allele frequencies stabilized, what was the frequency of the HbA allele?Q7. When you investigated regional differences, what was the frequency (over many generations) of the HbS allele in the village in the "slightly wet" part of Africa?Q8. What is the number of deaths due to sickle-cell anemia in a region without mosquitoes expected to be?Very lowVery highModerateRelated to the frequency of malaria allelesQ9. As long as there are multiple alleles of a gene in a population, why will the frequencies of the alleles always change over time?Because natural selection changes all allele frequencies in populations over time.Because genetic drift causes random fluctuations of allele frequencies in populations.Because diseases will eliminate some of the alleles, generating fluctuations in their frequencies.Because allele frequencies fluctuate before the alleles eventually become fixed.Q10. Imagine a huge population with a gene that has ten functionally equivalent, neutral alleles. A small but genetically representative group of individuals from the big population is transported to an island, forming a small population. Which of the statements below best describes what will likely happen over time, and why?Because natural selection doesn't act on neutral alleles, the frequencies in the two populations should remain the same over time.Genetic drift will cause one allele to first become fixed in the island population, and later to become fixed in the original, large population.Genetic drift will result in the allele frequencies of the two populations diverging over time, with alleles being lost sooner in the island population.The allele frequencies of the two populations will change similarly due to a combination of genetic drift natural selection.

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BILD 3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Natural Selection 2, Allele Frequency, Dna Replication

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