ANT220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Photo 51, Mutation, Heredity
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Population can outstrip the carrying capacity of environment. Believed having food was a lot more important than wealth. The world is older than we think than we think. Took a 5 year journey on his ship. The only source of new alleles into the human gene pool that produce change. Sometimes there is an error in the codes for creating proteins. Offers an advantage for regions that have malaria. But there can be some health consequences consequences of having it. As more people are affected with malaria, there is an increase in sickle-cell anemia. Refers to genetic changes due to differential reproductive success. During the revolution there was a lot of soot in the air and on the buildings. The physical characteristics of these is called a phenotype. Parents contribute equally to an offspring"s genetic makeup. For each gene an organism has two alleles (which can be the same or different), one allele from each parent.
