ANT202H5- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 14 pages long!)
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This statement is simplistic and inaccurate: we are used to seeing genetics discussed in relation to. Long term dynamic processes that unites all life (past, present, and future) Even at this level, we can look at genetics as information. The process of cellular replication can be seen as the transmission of genetic material from one cell to the next. Population genetics: the branch of genetics concerned with the changes in frequency of genes and dna sequences in populations over time. The primary concern of population genetics is on genetic changes within populations from one generation to another, which is called microevolution: microevolution: short-term evolutionary changes. Studying these short term changes allows us to make projections about macroevolution: macroevolution: long-term evolutionary changes. In this context, the process of genetic inheritance: it is the transmission of this information, or the passing on of the instructions needed for biological structures.
