Beeps are sheep that breed like bees; within a herd of Beeps, there is only one reproductive female. Other females forego their own reproduction and become 'worker beeps', helping to rear the young of the reproductive 'queen beep'. Members of a colony are inbred, having an r of about 0.95. This is an example of :
a) Exploitation of kin cues by the queen to enhance her fitness at the expense of the workers.
b) Altruism on the part of the workers that rear the young of the queen as their own.
c) Parent-offspring conflict.
d) Exploitation of kin cues by the workers to enhance their fitness by tricking the queen into reproducing for them.
e) A parasitism where the fitness of the queen and the workers is enhanced.
The solution to the generation time problem of the molecular clock relies on:
a) The inverse relationship between generation time and population size
b) The relationship between the selection coefficient, s, and the number of new mutations.
c) The neutral theory and effect of neutral mutations on generation time.
d) The number of new mutations that are subject to heterozygote advantage and frequency dependent selection.
e) The relative number of homologies and homoplasies.
According to the neutral theory, most mutations are deleterious and most _______________ are neutral.
a) homoplasies
b) mutations
c) selective events
d) substitutions
e) eliminated variants
Beeps are sheep that breed like bees; within a herd of Beeps, there is only one reproductive female. Other females forego their own reproduction and become 'worker beeps', helping to rear the young of the reproductive 'queen beep'. Members of a colony are inbred, having an r of about 0.95. This is an example of :
a) Exploitation of kin cues by the queen to enhance her fitness at the expense of the workers.
b) Altruism on the part of the workers that rear the young of the queen as their own.
c) Parent-offspring conflict.
d) Exploitation of kin cues by the workers to enhance their fitness by tricking the queen into reproducing for them.
e) A parasitism where the fitness of the queen and the workers is enhanced.
The solution to the generation time problem of the molecular clock relies on:
a) The inverse relationship between generation time and population size
b) The relationship between the selection coefficient, s, and the number of new mutations.
c) The neutral theory and effect of neutral mutations on generation time.
d) The number of new mutations that are subject to heterozygote advantage and frequency dependent selection.
e) The relative number of homologies and homoplasies.
According to the neutral theory, most mutations are deleterious and most _______________ are neutral.
a) homoplasies
b) mutations
c) selective events
d) substitutions
e) eliminated variants
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