BIOL 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Allele Frequency, Genotype Frequency, Gene Pool

• School: York University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1001
• Professor: Tamara Kelly

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Learning objectives: microevolution: provide arguments supporting evolution as a population process, explaining why individuals do not evolve. Changes in an individual over the course of its lifetime may be developmental (e. g. , a male bird growing more colorful plumage as it reaches sexual maturity) or may be caused by how the environment affects an organism (e. g. , a bird losing feathers because it is infected with many parasites); however, these shifts are not caused by changes in its genes: justify the importance of genetic variation in populations to the process of evolution, explaining the ways in which variation is generated. Given a scenario/graph classify: the degree of variation for that character, variation as qualitative or quantitative. Application, analysis: variation is important because it is a strong contributor to evolution. Through variation within a population individuals vary in genetics. If genotypic, these more advantageous variation will be favored by natural selection, this resulting in the increase of the frequency (allele) of these traits.