BIOL 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Heritability, Transitional Fossil, Sickle-Cell Disease

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The graph below shows the beak lengths in a soapberry bug population in florida from 1880 to 1980. Identify the environmental factors that lead to changes in the trait. Answer questions 28 31 based on the following description. Imagine a locus with two alleles in a human population: e = evil allele and n = normal allele. Ne individuals survive to adulthood and have equal fitness. You find that 5% of the population are ee and are affected evil disease. Only 35% of people with evil disease survive to adulthood. E)2 / s: 0. 005 x (1 s, 0. 65 x (freq. Answer questions 33 34 based on this information: An island population of 80 snakes is fixed for allele r". A population of a nearby island continent has a fixed r". 20 snakes migrate from the continent to the island: assume no founder effect.

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What is NOT a requirement for evolution by natural selection to occur?

a) Traits must be inherited

b) Traits must influence reproductive success

c) Inherited traits must have variation within the population

d) Characteristics that are favored (fitness) relate to the immediate environment

e) Variations will appear that will allow the survival of the species in future, unforeseen, circumstances.

Charles Darwin...

a) ... arrived at the idea of natural selection in the GalÃ¡pagos Islands.

b) ... was the first scientist to suggest evolution.

c) ... claimed that only aggressive and strong individuals would survive and reproduce.

d) ... with Alfred Wallace, published a mechanism for adaptive change, natural selection, and proposed a "tree of life".

e) ... argued that chimpanzees and gorillas were progressively evolving into human beings.

One common misconception about evolution is that individual organisms evolve. It is true that natural selection acts on individuals: Each organism's traits affect its survival and reproductive success compared with those of other individuals. But the evolutionary impact of natural selection is only apparent in the changes in a population of organisms over time.

Using at least two examples, explain how the process of evolution is revealed by the imperfections of living things. Provide evidence based facts.

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During our classroom discussion on evolution, we emphasized three requirements for natural selection: variation for a trait in a population, heritability of a trait, and differential reproductive success.

It is suggested that humans are evolving with respect to two traits that likely are favored by natural selection: HIV resistance and Height

Although human height is influence by both genetic and environmental factors â Human height is clearly variable. Human height has increased substantially over the past three decades. In certain populations, those changes seem to be due to evolution rather than improved nutrition and medical care.

Addressing the requirements for natural selection â Are humans evolving with respect to height?

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BIOL 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Heritability, Transitional Fossil, Sickle-Cell Disease

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