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GUIDE MASTER DOCUMENT
VALIDATED INQUIRIES AND FULL
RESOLUTION SUCCESS GUARANTEED
Artificial Selection. Ans: Breeding organisms with specific traits in
order to produce offspring with identical traits.
⫸ Evolution. Ans: The gradual change in a species over time
⫸ Extinction. Ans: A term that typically describes a species that no
longer has any known living individuals.
⫸ Natural Selection. Ans: A natural process resulting in the evolution
of organisms best adapted to the environment. (Survival of the fittest)
⫸ Variation. Ans: Any difference between individuals of the same
species.
⫸ Allele Frequency. Ans: Number of times that an allele occurs in a
gene pool compared with the number of alleles in that pool for the
same gene
⫸ Allele. Ans: Different forms of a gene
, ⫸ Gene Pool. Ans: Combined genetic information of all the
members of a particular population
⫸ Genome. Ans: all of an organism's genetic material
⫸ Gene. Ans: Discrete unit of hereditary information
⫸ Genotype. Ans: Genetic makeup of an organism
⫸ Hardy-Weinberg Principle. Ans: If in a large population, p and q
are proportions of allele A and a. After one generation of random
mating, the genotypes will attain and remain at the following
frequencies: p^2 2pq q^2.
AA = p^2
Aa = 2pq
aa = q^2
⫸ Five Conditions for Hardy Weinberg Principle to Apply. Ans: 1.
Very large population
2. Isolated from other populations
3. No mutations
4. Random mating
5. No natural Selection.
GUIDE MASTER DOCUMENT
VALIDATED INQUIRIES AND FULL
RESOLUTION SUCCESS GUARANTEED
Artificial Selection. Ans: Breeding organisms with specific traits in
order to produce offspring with identical traits.
⫸ Evolution. Ans: The gradual change in a species over time
⫸ Extinction. Ans: A term that typically describes a species that no
longer has any known living individuals.
⫸ Natural Selection. Ans: A natural process resulting in the evolution
of organisms best adapted to the environment. (Survival of the fittest)
⫸ Variation. Ans: Any difference between individuals of the same
species.
⫸ Allele Frequency. Ans: Number of times that an allele occurs in a
gene pool compared with the number of alleles in that pool for the
same gene
⫸ Allele. Ans: Different forms of a gene
, ⫸ Gene Pool. Ans: Combined genetic information of all the
members of a particular population
⫸ Genome. Ans: all of an organism's genetic material
⫸ Gene. Ans: Discrete unit of hereditary information
⫸ Genotype. Ans: Genetic makeup of an organism
⫸ Hardy-Weinberg Principle. Ans: If in a large population, p and q
are proportions of allele A and a. After one generation of random
mating, the genotypes will attain and remain at the following
frequencies: p^2 2pq q^2.
AA = p^2
Aa = 2pq
aa = q^2
⫸ Five Conditions for Hardy Weinberg Principle to Apply. Ans: 1.
Very large population
2. Isolated from other populations
3. No mutations
4. Random mating
5. No natural Selection.
