1. A) Explain how changes in the environment drive evolutionary change. B) Provide and explain an example

2. A) Explain how the Hardy-Weinberg equation allows us to find evidence of evolution. B) Could processes other than Natural Selection result in deviation from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium? List and explain each one: C) define what the process is and D) the effect it has on the allele frequency.

3. A gene that is responsible for multiple traits (pleiotropy), for example the same allele causes sickle-cell anemia and provides resistance to malaria. Would a gene that controls these two traits respond equally to natural selection favoring malaria resistance as a non-pleitropic gene that only controls malaria resistance? Explain your answer.

4. A) Explain how lack of genetic variation limits evolution and provide an example. B) Explain how epistasis limits evolution and provide an example

Questions 5-6 are based on the following:

Letâs say you are studying a population of Japanese four oâclock plants. In these plants, the allele for red color flower shows incomplete dominance over the allele for white flowers. This is very convenient for this experiment because you can distinguish the heterozygous (pink flowers) from the homozygous dominant (red flowers). For your experiment, you produced a large number of plants, 25% had red flowers, 25% had white flowers and 50% had pink flowers. You transplanted them into different habitats and left some in the lab (using the same proportions in all the habitats). You waited a few years, while plants reproduce for a few generations and then you go back and resample the populations youâve transplanted.

5. In the lab you ensured that all individuals receive all requirements to grow and reproduce and mate randomly. A) What do you expect the distribution of the phenotypes after a few generations breeding in the lab? B) Is the lab population in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium? Yes/No, explain

6. In habitat A, you find that you only have red flowering plants and white flowering plants but there are no pink flowering plants. A) Is the population in habitat A in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium? Yes/No, explain. B) Which one(s) of the five agents of evolutionary change could be responsible for these results? Explain. C) What type(s) of selection (stabilizing, disruptive, directional, oscillating, etc...) could be responsible for the results in habitat A? Explain

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Kermode bears are white bears that are found in the rainforest on Princess Royal and Gribbell islands along the coast of British Columbia. This subspecies of black bears is known as the Spirit Bear. Its white fur is the result of a single nucleotide replacement in the melanocortin-1 (Mc1r) receptor portion of the gene that leads to the production of adenine instead of guanine. The white fur allele (W) is a recessive allele unique to this subspecies. Dr. Kermit Ritland and his colleagues found that approximately out of a total population of 73 bears on Princess Royal and Gribbell Islands 48 were white (WW). Of the black bears (BB and BW), 12 were homozygous and 13 were heterozygous. The percentage of white bears on the mainland drops off drastically with distance from those islands.

Assuming complete dominance, estimate the observed allele frequencies (maintain 3 significant digits for all calculations) (1pt)?
q =
p =
Thus, for a randomly mating population at equilibrium, the Hardy-Weinberg theorem gives us the genotype frequencies expected for Kermode bears (1pt).
The expected frequency of BB genotypes =
The expected frequency of BW genotypes =
The expected frequency of WW genotypes =
If there is a population of 37 bears on Princess Royal Island, how many would you expect to be black (1pt)?
How many would you expect to be white (1pt)?

You can use the Chi-square statistic to test whether the observed numbers of your BB,
BW, and WW genotypes (your categories) differ from your expected proportions morethan you would expect due to chance. The Chi-square statistic is a probability distributionthat we can use to estimate the probability (âp-valueâ) of finding differences in observedand expected values. If the observed values are very different from the expected values(resulting in a large Chi-square value), we would say there is a low probability (p<0.01)of that difference occurring due to chance alone. This outcome would suggest somemechanism of evolution (drift, natural selection, etc.) is pushing allele frequencies out ofHardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Use the Chi-square calculator to test for differences in your observed numbers of the three genotypes and the expected frequencies on Princess RoyalIsland (using the âfraction expectedâ option) at:https://graphpad.com/quickcalcs/chisquared1.cfm.

Are the observed numbers and expected frequencies significantly different? What doesthis mean is happening to white bears on Princess Royal Island (2pts)?

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Kermode bears are white bears that are found in the rainforest on Princess Royal and Gribbell islands along the coast of British Columbia. This subspecies of black bears is known as the Spirit Bear. Its white fur is the result of a single nucleotide replacement in the melanocortin-1 (Mc1r) receptor portion of the gene that leads to the production of adenine instead of guanine. The white fur allele (W) is a recessive allele unique to this subspecies. Dr. Kermit Ritland and his colleagues found that approximately out of a total population of 73 bears on Princess Royal and Gribbell Islands 48 were white (WW). Of the black bears (BB and BW), 12 were homozygous and 13 were heterozygous. The percentage of white bears on the mainland drops off drastically with distance from those islands.

Assuming complete dominance, estimate the observed allele frequencies (maintain 3 significant digits for all calculations) (1pt)?
q =
p =
Thus, for a randomly mating population at equilibrium, the Hardy-Weinberg theorem gives us the genotype frequencies expected for Kermode bears (1pt).
The expected frequency of BB genotypes =
The expected frequency of BW genotypes =
The expected frequency of WW genotypes =
If there is a population of 37 bears on Princess Royal Island, how many would you expect to be black (1pt)?
How many would you expect to be white (1pt)?

You can use the Chi-square statistic to test whether the observed numbers of your BB,
BW, and WW genotypes (your categories) differ from your expected proportions morethan you would expect due to chance. The Chi-square statistic is a probability distributionthat we can use to estimate the probability (âp-valueâ) of finding differences in observedand expected values. If the observed values are very different from the expected values(resulting in a large Chi-square value), we would say there is a low probability (p<0.01)of that difference occurring due to chance alone. This outcome would suggest somemechanism of evolution (drift, natural selection, etc.) is pushing allele frequencies out ofHardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Use the Chi-square calculator to test for differences in your observed numbers of the three genotypes and the expected frequencies on Princess RoyalIsland (using the âfraction expectedâ option) at:https://graphpad.com/quickcalcs/chisquared1.cfm.

Are the observed numbers and expected frequencies significantly different? What doesthis mean is happening to white bears on Princess Royal Island (2pts)?

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