10 Questions
What term describes the allele frequencies established by chance in a population initiated by a small number of individuals?
Founder effects
In evolutionary terms, what does natural selection result from?
Differential reproduction based on differences in fitness
Which process occurs randomly through time and can lead to the loss of alleles in a population?
Stochastic process
What is the term used to describe the differential survival and reproduction of genotypes due to factors like mutation and recombination?
Selection
Which type of selection involves human actions on economically important plant or animal populations?
Artificial selection
What term is used to describe the expected reproductive output over the lifetime of a genotype or phenotype?
Fitness
In natural selection, what does 'most fit' refer to?
Genotype or phenotype with higher average reproductive output
'Fitness' in evolutionary biology is primarily a measure of what?
'Relative survival and reproductive success'
'Selectional mosaics' refer to organisms that exhibit what characteristic?
'Differing adaptations in different body parts'
'Viability' in measuring fitness relates to what aspect of an organism's life cycle?
Probability of survival from egg to adult.
Test your knowledge on Chapter 12 of the T Cytogenetics Comprehensive Reviewer 2021 focusing on Population Genetics. Explore topics such as genetic variation analysis, forces controlling genetic variation, and mathematical principles governing genotype changes in populations.
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