What is the long term and short term effects of natural selection on coding and non-coding DNA, the amount of transposable elements and birth and death of genes? And how does it exert the effect?

Q: Steven Frank and Laurence Hurst argued that a cytoplasmically inherited mutation in humans that has…

A: The mutation is the sudden deleterious effects in the DNA sequences, they can arise when the DNA is…

Q: How does the structure of DNA enable the ability to store information, be consistently replicated…

A: Nucleic acids are involved in various processes in the cell, their main role is the expression of…

Q: Which of the following conditions are required for natural selection?

A: Answer. Natural selection is a process in which the organism which is better adapted to the…

Q: How do mutations work with natural selection in the theory of evolution?

A: Evolution is the study of how organisms have arisen on this planet with the course of time and how…

Q: DNA-based

A: In the initial times the genetic material of yhe most of the primitive organisms was the RNA and…

Q: What is the difference between artificial selection and natural selection?

A: Evolution can be precisely defined as any change in the frequency of alleles within a gene pool from…

Q: In what way is artificial selection different from natural selection?

A: Over time, populations undergo evolutionary changes as a result of both natural and artificial…

Q: What is the difference between a neutral and an adaptive evolutionary process? Describe two or more…

A: Evolution: Evolution is a systemic process that is happening step by step manner to select an…

Q: Why does variation exist in nature? What could be its significance?

A: Variation causes and definition ---  The following factors are mainly responsible for variation ---…

Q: Which of the following changes or mutations can be acted upon by natural selection? For each choice,…

A: Charles Darwin is often considered the father of evolution theory as he gave the modern theory of…

Q: if the recessive allele r is lethal, what genotypes will natural selection benefits ?

A: Recessive alleles are nearly tough to completely eradicate from a population since both AA and Aa…

Q: Humans and chimpanzees share about 98% of their DNA. What is DNA? What might be the role of…

A: DNA Structure and Function:DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is composed of nucleotides, which consist…

Q: What role does epigenetics play in the process of genetic evolution?

A: Genetics and evolution have traditionally been understood in terms of changes to the sequence of…

Q: If all cells carry the same DNA information, how is it that different cells may carry out different…

A: INTRODUCTION           When the population of organisms made changes in an over generations in…

Q: When comparing evolutionary similarities between different genes within a gene family, it is usually…

A: A gene is a sequence of DNA that codes for a specific protein. Proteins are the building blocks of…

Q: How did Spiegelman et al.' s experiments in 1967 & 1970 on the origins of natural selection provide…

A: The RNA World hypothesis would be confirmed if experimental evidence indicated that a completely…

Q: What is a gene? Why are regulatory genes important to the evolutionary process? What is a mutation…

A: 1. A gene is the basic unit of heredity, carrying the information for a specific trait or function.…

Q: What is the genomic conflict hypothesis for the origin of genomic imprinting?

A: Genomic imprinting is a phenomenon of inheritance which is independent of the Mendelian inheritance.…

Q: Which of the proteins is changing at the slowest rate and is most conserved?

A: Evolution can be defined as the change in the characteristics that are inherited over generations of…

Q: Which of the following examples from class show that a mutation can have evolutionary benefits?…

A: Mutations are an important aspect of evolution. All the genetic features in an organism were,…

Q: what is the role of gene duplication, whole genome duplication, transposable elements, and…

A: Genome evolution refers to the changes that occur in the genetic makeup of an organism over time,…

Q: Genetic variation in organism is due to?

A: Genes are basic units of inheritance. Gene is  a specific sequence of DNA which encodes specific…

Pre-Darwinian Concepts