BIOL 1107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Molecular Clock, Molecular Evolution, Genetic Drift

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30 Jan 2018

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Northeastern University

Department

Biology

Course

BIOL 1107

Professor

Melissa Mc Elligott

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Genetic variation is an integral component of natural selection. Allows for alleles to be recombined and to form potentially new alleles. Allele frequency = (# of copies of an allele)/ total # of alleles in population. Change in the frequency of alleles in a population over time. Look at an obvious trait and the phenotype makes the genotype really obvious. It will convert a dye to a visual color. Count the bigs and the littles (if it is dark that counts as 2) You can look at a gel and see who"s homozygous, who"s heterozygous and the frequency of them. Can determine the diff b/w even one amino acid. Depends on the darkness of the staining. Collecting a population sample and counting the number of occurrences of a given mutation. See if the allele frequency has changed if they are under selective pressure. Evolution can occur when you are watching it. The organisms best fit for the environment.

Related Questions

Need help with evolution questions:

1.) A haplotype is best defined as the ________________.

	haploid genotypes of all the gametes produced by a diploid individual

ABO blood type conferred by an individual gamete

genotype of either the paternal or maternal chromosomal complement

multilocus genotype of a chromosome or gamete

2.) Which of the following statements regarding linkage disequilibrium is true?

Exists when D is less than zero, but not when it is greater than zero.

Is reduced by sexual reproduction.

Is increased by crossing-over during meiosis.

Is increased by any random sampling error that happens to create or destroy certain chromosome genotypes but not others.

Is reduced by selection that favors certain combinations of genotypes.

3.) Selection on multilocus genotypes in random-mating populations leads to linkage disequilibrium when _______________.

it reduces mutation rates

it eliminates all haplotypes from the population

it prevents crossing-over during meiosis

some allele combinations confer greater fitness than do others

4.) When two loci are in linkage equilibrium, the allele carried on a chromosome at one locus is independent of the allele carried on the chromosome at another locus. When this is the case, _________________.

allele frequencies will not change over time

the two loci (or, more specifically, their protein products) do not interact

the frequency of each haplotype can be calculated by multiplying the frequency of its two alleles

all possible haplotypes occur at equal frequency

5.) Which of the following accurately characterize(s) Muller's ratchet model for the selective advantage of sexual reproduction?

Drift establishes linkage disequilibrium because multilocus genotypes with few mutations are eliminated by chance events.

In populations without sexual reproduction, deleterious mutations accumulate, eventually imposing such a burden that the population goes extinct.

Sex is favored selectively because it recreates the zero-mutation genotypes lost due to drift.

All of the above correctly characterize Muller's ratchet model for the evolution of sexual reproduction.

6.) The genetic signature of recent positive selection on a locus is _______________.

high frequency and low linkage disequilibrium

low frequency and low linkage disequilibrium

low frequency and high linkage disequilibrium

high frequency and high linkage disequilibrium

7.) Sexual reproduction is advantageous both in changing environments and in constant environments, compared to asexual reproduction.

True

False

8.) Sexual reproduction causes genetic recombination via crossing-over, which combines genotypes from different parents.

True

False

9.) One reason sex may be maintained in natural populations is proposed by the "Red Queen Hypothesis", which states that.....

genotypes created by sex are created by natural selection over and over

recombination creating novel genotypes that can resist infection by parasites

mutation load is reduced by novel adaptive mutations

the ability of sex to fix multiple

Short answers please

1. What is the ultimate effect in an XY human with its SRY genemutated?

2. In humans, the allele for brown eye (B) is dominant to blue(b) eye color. If two heterozygous parents produce children, whatis the probability that:

a. The first child has brown eyes, and the next two childrenhave blue eyes?

b. If the couple above eventually produces a total of sixchildren, what is the probability that three of them will be boyswith brown eyes, and three of them girls with blue eyes?

3. In a paternity dispute, a type AB woman claimed that one ofthe four men was the father of her type A child. Which of thefollowing men could be the father of the child on the basis of theevidence below? Give your reasoning.

Man #1 = type A

Man #2 = type B

Man #3 = type O

Man #4 = type AB

4. Several mating were made among all-white cats. The progentfrom these mating showed the following phenotypic frequency:

All-white cats = 12/16

Black cats = 3/16

Gray cats = 1/16

a. Diagram the cross showing the genotypes of the parents, andtheir progeny as given above,

b. Which gene is epistatic? Explain your answer.

5. Mitosis and meiosis differ in that

a. homologues are seperated in prophase of mitosis

b. homologues are seperated in prophase I of meiosis

c. homologues are seperated in prophase II of meiosis

d. sister chromatids are seperated in prophase I of meiosis

6. The phases of meiosis that most resemble those of mitosisare

a. the meiosis I phase

b. the meiosis II phase

c. meiosis I, except for the pairing of homologues

d. meiosis II, except for the pairing of homologues

7. Genetic variability in sexually reproducing organism s arisesfrom

a. crossing over events between sister chromatids

b. crossing over events between nonsister chromatids

c. egg and sperm genetic recombination from distinctindividuals

d. egg and sperm recombination from an individual

8. A female contains an extra X chromosome, resulting fromnondisjunction. When this gamete is fertilized with normal sperm,it would result in an individual of a genotype

a. XXX

b. XXY

c. XYY

d. all of the above

e. only a and b

9. A diploid organism has the genotype AaBbCcDdEe. How manydifferent types of gametes can this individual produce?

a. 5

b. 10

c. 25

d. 32

e. 625

10. Assuming complete dominance, what is the phenotype ratio ofthe offspring of the cross AaBb x aabb?

a. 1:1

b. 3:1

c. 1:2:1

d. 1:1:1:1

e. 9:3:3:1

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What is a genome? What is a genome made of? Describe the bacterial genome. How do bacteria reproduce? What is binary fission? Distinguish between a chromosome and chromatin. Where are chromosomes located in eukaryotic cells? What is the chromosome made of? What is a centromere? What is the centromere's role? What are sister chromatids and how do they arise? Distinguish between somatic cells and germ (gametes) cells. Describe the cell cycle. What are the different phases? What occurs during S phase? What is interphase? How is the cell cycle controlled?

Describe mitosis. What are the phases of mitosis? What occurs in each of the phases of mitosis? What is cytokinesis? How does this differ between plant and animal cells? What is a kinetochore? Where does it form? What is its role? What is the role of microtubules in mitosis? What is a centriole and what is it composed of? What is a centrosome and what is its role in mitosis? What is the metaphase plate and why is this important? What is the mitotic spindle, its role and its makeup? What defines a diploid cell? How many copies of each chromosome is in a diploid cell? What about a haploid cell? Why do the daughter cells of mitosis always have the same complement of chromosomes?

Describe meiosis. What are the phases of meiosis? What occurs in each of the phases of meiosis? Distinguish between meiosis I and meiosis II and describe how each of these processes compare to mitosis. Why do animal cells undergo meiosis? What is a gamete? What is a zygote? What are recombination, crossing-over, and chiasma? When and why does this occur? What is meant by 'homologous pair of chromosomes'? Why don't the daughter cells of meiosis have the same genetic makeup? What controls the segregation of chromosomes into the gametes?

What are genetic characters? What are genetic traits? What is an allele? What is a locus? How many alleles at each locus would a human cell have and why? Distinguish between genotype and phenotype. What is meant by a dominant gene? What is meant by a recessive gene? How do these differ? What is the genotype of a homozygous dominant organism? What is its phenotype? What is the genotype of a homozygous recessive organism? What is its phenotype? What is the genotype of a heterozygous organism? What is its phenotype? What is a genetic cross? Distinguish between the P, F1, and F2 generations. What is a true-breeding line? What is the genotype and phenotype of a cross between homozygous dominant and homozygous recessive parents? If the F1 progeny are crossed, what would be the genotype and phenotype of the F2 generation? What would be the phenotypic ratio? What would be the genotypic ratio? Be ready to generate Punnet square tests or probability analyses of crosses involving more than one genetic locus. Describe a dihybrid cross where two alleles are homozygous dominant in one parent and homozygous recessive in the other. What would be the phenotypic ratio of the F2 generation from this dihybrid cross? What is meant by independent assortment? Be prepared to calculate probabilities resulting from different crosses.

Distinguish between complete and incomplete dominance. How would incomplete dominance alter the results of a hybrid cross? What would the resulting F2 generation phenotype and genotype ratios be? What is codominance? How does this affect the results of crosses? Be prepared to determine likely blood types of parents based on the blood types of their offspring. What is a polygenic trait? What is a carrier state for a genetic disease? What is meant by linked genes? How does this affect expected outcomes of genetic crosses? How is gene linkage used for chromosomal mapping? Distinguish between autosomes and sex chromosomes. What sex chromosomes are found in women? What sex chromosomes are found in men? What are sex-linked traits? Be prepared to give the results of crosses that involve sex-linked recessive traits. What is the process of nondisjunction? What are the likely results? Why is this important? What is a Barr body? Recognize the genetic abnormality of Downs Syndrome, Turner's Syndrome, and Klinefelter's Syndrome.

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