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Chapter 20, Problem 5U
Founder effects and bottlenecks are
a. expected only in large populations.
b. mechanisms that increase
c. two different modes of natural selection.
d. forms of genetic drift.
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A population occupies heterogeneous environments in which the fitness of some genotypes is higher in one environment and the fitness of other individuals is higher in another environment. This situation is likely to result in
a. directional selection.
b. stabilizing selection.
c. disruptive selection.
d. balancing selection.
The key difference between natural selection, genetic drift, and artificial selection is:
a.
Whether or not they change allele frequency.
b.
Only genetic drift removes harmful traits.
c.
What is causing the differential reproduction.
d.
Only one of them involves heritable elements
e.
None of the above is correct.
Which of the following is/are assumptions made under the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium principle?
A. Mutations are introduced into the gene pool at a regular frequency.
B. New alleles may be introduced to the population by migration.
C. Gametes combine at random.
D. The fittest individuals in a population are most likely to reproduce.
E. Allele frequencies change at random from one generation to the next.
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