4. What is the difference between micro- and macroevolution? 5. Population genetics is the study of:
6. Which of the following populations is not in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?
7. One of the original Amish colonies rose from a ship of colonists that came from Europe. The ship’s captain, who had polydactyly, a rare dominant trait, was one of the original colonists. Today, we see a much higher frequency of polydactyly in the Amish population. This is an example of:
8. When male lions reach sexual maturity, they leave their group in search of a new pride. This can alter the allele frequencies of the population through which of the following mechanisms?
9. Which of the following evolutionary forces can introduce new genetic variation into a population?
10. What is assortative mating?
11. When closely related individuals mate with each other, or inbreed, the offspring are often not as fit as the offspring of two unrelated individuals. Why?
12. What is a cline?
13. Which type of selection results in greater genetic variance in a population?
14. When males and females of a population look or act differently, it is referred to as ________.
15. The good genes hypothesis is a theory that explains what?
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