Evolutionary Analysis Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Evolutionary Analysis Chapter 4 PowerPoint question with complete solution graded A+ 2023What is taxonomy? - correct answer naming and classifying What is phylogeny? - correct answer evolutionary history What is the difference between the two? - correct answer What is a phylogenetic tree? - correct answer What can we infer from a phylogenetic tree? - correct answer the evolutionary histories, what species gave rise to certain species. How did those parental species occur. Derive...

Evolutionary Analysis Chapter 1 Notes 2023 updated to passHIV - correct answer An intracellular parasite incapable of reproducing on its own. It invades specific types of cells in the human immune system. The virus makes copies of itself by hijacking the host's cells and killing those cells off in the process. Virion - correct answer Extracellular form of a virus Coreceptor inhibitors - correct answer Bar HIV from entering host cells in the first place by preventing them from latching ont...

Evolutionary Analysis Final question with complete solution 2023 passedAdaptation - correct answer a trait or integrated suite of traits that increases the fitness of its possessor • Differences among populations or species are not always adaptive • Not every trait of an organism use of every trait by an organism is an adaptation • Not every adaptation is perfect Example of testing various hypotheses of adaptions - correct answer -looked at tick load, mean number of wounds, a...

Evolutionary Analysis Chapter 1 End of chapter questions and answers graded A+ already passed The pope said " (HIV) cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, they increase it" Is the popes first statement correct? How about his second statement? How do we know? - correct answer The Pope's first statement is that Africa's problem with HIV/AIDS "cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms." The statement is true in that no single strategy will prevent the t...

Evolutionary Analysis Ch 6 question and answers graded A+ 2023 passedpopulation - correct answer group of interbreeding individuals and their offspring genetic drift - correct answer blind luck that can cause a population to evolve unpredictably Hardy-Weinberg conclusion 1 - correct answer the allele frequencies will no change generation after generation Hardy-Weinberg conclusion 2 - correct answer If the allele frequencies in a population are given by p and q, the genotype frequencies ...

Evolutionary Analysis Ch 16 question well answered rated A+ 2023The smallest evolutionarily independent unit of life. - correct answer Species What factors cause evolutionary independent units to arise? - correct answer mutation, selection, genetic drift Speciation requires that there is absolutely no ___ between populations. - correct answer blending/gene flow What are the three most widely used "species concepts" that have been proposed to define species? - correct answer Morphospec...

Evolutionary Analysis ch 7 question and answers graded A+ 2023 already passedMigration - correct answer the movement of alleles between populations homogenize - correct answer High levels of migration ________ populations. Migration has a larger impact of this on small populations than large populations. sampling error - correct answer In a small population, chance events produce outcomes that differ from theoretical expectations. This kind of random discrepancy between the theoretical and...

Evolutionary Analysis ch 3 question and answers graded A+ 2023 already passed Darwinian fitness - correct answer the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce in its environment adaptation - correct answer trait or characteristic of an organism heritability - correct answer the proportion of the varitation observed in a population that is due to variation in genes. varies between 0 and 1 Issues that complicate heritability estimates - correct answer misidentified paternity, cons...

Evolutionary Analysis Ch 12 question and answers graded A+ 2023mutualism - correct answer +/+ interaction altruism - correct answer -/+ interaction selfishness - correct answer +/- interaction spite - correct answer -/- interaction coefficient of relatedness - correct answer r, this is the probability that homologous alleles in two individuals are identical by descent Hamilton's rule - correct answer States that an allele for altruistic behavior will spread if Br-C > 0 where B...

Evolutionary Analysis Ch.9 questions fully solved graded A+ 2023 best-fit line - correct answer The line that most accurately represents the trend of the data in a scatterplot; typically best-fit lines are calculated by least-squares linear regression. likelihood ratio - correct answer Spontaneous movement of a substance from a region of high concentration to one of low concentration (i.e., down a concentration gradient). independence (statistical) - correct answer Lack of association amo...