Chapter 7, Problem 5PDT

Summary Introduction

To determine: The likeliness of the beneficial mutation to be common in two populations, S and L, of a fly, each isolated from all other populations, after 1000 generations.

Introduction: Both, population S of flies of 10³ individuals, living on a very small island and population L of flies of 10⁸ individuals, living on a continent are isolated from all the other populations. A beneficial mutation is seen, which increases the fitness by 1%, due to an allele which is absent initially in both S and L populations.