BIOL 3040 : Final Study Guide
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Final exam study guide: describe the process of artificial selection, obtain an organism with the traits we want, and use that organism as the parent for the next generation. Continue to repeat this process for years, always choosing the organism in the generation with the most beneficial traits. If a1 is dominant, its initial increase in frequency is the most rapid, but its pace slows once it is common in the population. If a1 and a2 are codominant, then a1 reaches fixation the fastest. For a neutral locus in a diploid wright-fisher population size of n, the average time to coalescence for a randomly chosen pair of gene copies turns out to be 2n generations. List the major transitions in the evolution of life on earth: origin of self-replicating molecules capable of heredity, transition from rna to dna, origin of first cells, emergence of euk.
