Based on the class data from Experiment I, generally speaking, how does population size affect genetic drift?

Q: 3. a. Why are most populations not in Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium?   b. There is an ancient village…

A: Answer : Most populations do not conform to Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) due to several…

Q: 1. List three places outside of Africa where sickle-cell anemia is fairly common in the indigenous…

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Q: Within the field of population genetics microevolution is defined as survival of the…

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Q: 1. What proportion of the population was homozygous dominant? Homozygous recessive? Heterozygous? 2.…

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Q: Instruction: Fill up the table by computing the dominant alleles, recessive alleles and the…

A: Hardy Weinberg principle It is a principle that states that the population will remain constant from…

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Q: 3. You have sampled a population in which you know that the percentage of homozygous recessive…

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Q: 1). The p-value for this test is . 072. Do we reject the null hypothesis?2). Is there sufficient…

A: 1: Assuming that the significance level, 𝛼=0.05The p-value for this test is 0.072.Since the p-value…

Q: 8. Imagine that you collected individuals of a species of hydra and established six replicate…

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Q: Based on literature survey of heritabilities of variable traits within a population, is the…

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Q: repeat (STR) profile, which identifies the two alleles that are present at each locus in a series of…

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Q: Provide an example of a research project in your hometown where you would choose to use a t-test for…

A: Introduction A statistical hypothesis is a way of assessing parameters in a population for obtaining…

Q: You have sampled a populaton in which you know that the percentage of the the homozygous recessive…

A: The hardy weinberg equilibrium equation:  p2+ 2pq+ q2=1 Or p+q=1 Where,  p = frequency of homozygous…

Q: 3. The recessive allele foccurs with a frequency of 0.41 in a population of orange clownfish…

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Q: Genetic equilibrium means that ... O the distribution of alleles is not changing from generation to…

A: A Gene pool is a set of all genes in a population. Natural selection is an evolutionary theory…

Q: In the Hardy-Weinberg equation, p is O an allele frequency. the frequency of heterozygotes. the…

A: Hardy Weinberg equilibrium states that genetic variation in a population will remain constant from…

Q: Microevolution is: a. A change in the number of linked genes b. A change in the allele frequency of…

A: Microevolution is the change in allele frequency of a gene in a population.These are changes…

Q: 24. The Hardy-Weinberg equation accurately predicts allele frequencies for a population only if a.…

A: Hardy-Weinberg law states that in a large population, the gene frequencies of various kinds of genes…

Q: 20. A gene contributing to the phenotypic variation of a quantitative trait is called?

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Q: 18. Based on what you know about natural selection, what would you expect to happen to genetic…

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Q: One hundred rabbits are introduced to a new environment. Fifty rabbits are brown and 50 are white.…

A: * Genetic drift refers to random fluctuations in frequencies of alleles from generation to…

Q: 6. After a population becomes divided by some barrier to gene flow (i.e., reproductive isolating…

A: The phylogenetic tree is sometimes referred to as the "Tree of Life" or "Dendrogram." The idea of a…

Q: 19. You are examining a population of marmots in Yellowstone National Park. Some have black fur and…

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Q: 3 Which of the following does not fit with conditions for maintaining genetic equilibrium according…

A: The Hardy winwork law equation equilibrium is the fundamental law of population genetics. It…

Q: 2. Why selection should come first before breeding is done?

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Q: Genetic drift is more likely to have a significant effect on allele and genotypic frequencies in a…

A: The answer is The population size is small.

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Q: 2 Is Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium observed in natural populations? Explain.

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Q: 27 a.) which of the following are both forces of evolution 1. Selection and Mutation 2. Selection…

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Q: . Practice two 1) What technologies could be used to test for biological fathers? 2) Among human DNA…

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Q: 1. What is the percentage heterozygosity remaining in a bottlenecked population of 25 individuals…

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Q: 5. Describe the variation in the appearance among individuals in a population when a trait is…

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Q: You have sampled a population in which you know that the percentage of the homozygous recessive…

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Q: 55. true or false: natural selection involves genetic variation differential reproductive success…

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Q: 17) In chi-squared analysis... A. If the observed data exactly agree with the predictions of the…

A: In a Chi square test, null hypothesis shows that there is no relationship between the two variables.

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Q: 22. The graph shows the distribution of a trait in an animal population. mean Range of variable…

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Q: Specifically in a control group, the variable that is not changed is the blank variable? this is a…

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