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Q: In a certain population of mice, a single gene controls fur color. There are two possible alleles:…

A: Hardy- Weinberg equilibrium equation is used to track the changes in the genotypic frequencies in a…

Q: In a human population, the genotype frequencies at one locus are 0.5 A/A, 0.4 A/a, and 0.1 a/a. The…

A: Acc.to the given question; The genotypic frequency for AA (homozygous dominant) is 0.5 The genotypic…

Q: Answer the following questions: a. A gene has 2 alleles, R and B. List the possible genotypes. b. If…

A: Given: a) A gene has 2 alleles, R and B. Possible genotypes =? b) Total individuals = 40 All 40…

Q: Genot Genot уре уре Gene Genotype Frequencies Gene Frequ Frequ encies encies Frequencies Frequenci…

A: A population is said to be in Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) if there is no change in the allele…

Q: How do natural disasters affects the genetic structure of a population?

A: In a population, some organisms survive longer than other organisms and produce more progeny. The…

Q: A/An ________ is a group of organisms that is more likely to breed with each other than outsiders.…

A: Population genetics is the branch of genetics that deals with the description of observable or…

Q: The frequency of an autosomal recessive condition is 0.001 (1 in 1000) in a population. What is the…

A: p2 = frequency of the genotype and it is homozygous dominant.2pq = frequency of the genotype and it…

Q: Refer to the following to answer the two questions that follow: A population begins with 100…

A: The population initially have 100 individuals with genotype Aa. After 10 generations,  Number of…

Q: Who first proposed that the size of populations was controlled by the availability of resources?…

A: According to Malthusian theory, three factors would control human population that exceeded the…

Q: How does population size affect genetic diversity? Cite one example.

A: INTRODUCTION       Genetic diversity is defined as a diet of different types of hereditary…

Q: A population consists of 100 individuals of the following genotypes: AA Aa aa 55 20 25 What is the…

A: Total population = 100AA = 55Aa = 20 aa = 25

Q: After investigating a population, a biologist determined that 16% of the population exhibited the…

A: Heterozygous is a state of having inherited different forms of a particular gene from each one of…

Q: Please show work - Evolution: Population genetics: 4. An inbreeding population of guppies loses…

A: Effective population size is the number of successful generational contributors.  The effective…

Q: Which population has greater genetic variation? Population 1 Population 2 Heterozygosity No. of…

A: Population 2 will have more genetic variation.

Q: The graph below is a computer simulation run on the same population of 2,000 flies looking at the…

A: Natural selection is an important evolutionary process in which species seek to adapt to evolving…

Q: Populations evolve by means of natural selection Group of answer choices True False   Population…

A: Evolution is a charecteristic change in the in species which take place over several generation time…

Q: The variation in the trait is at least partially genetic and can be passed from generation to…

A: Genes determine phenotypic traits or characteristics that can be observed in an organism. It…

Q: Imagine a population of pea plants growing in Petaluma. 50% of the gene pool is P alleles, for…

A: Answer: Frequency of alleles in a population is the occurance of a particular trait how a trait is…

Q: This is a graph of the expected frequency of a deleterious allele, with a constant mutation rate,…

A: (I)What is the overall trend shown?  The graph is XY -graph. The general equation of a straight line…

Q: Under genetic drift, if an allele’s frequency is 1%, what is the likelihood that it will be lost…

A: Genetic Drift is also called as an allele drift. It is the change in allele frequency by chance.…

Q: In a certain population at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, the frequencies of two alleles A and a are…

A: Hardy-Weinberg law states that in a large population, the gene frequencies of various kinds of genes…

Q: Describe how population genetics is used to study the evolution of populations

A: In biology, evolution is that the modification within the characteristics of a species over many…

Q: What is Darwinian fitness? What types of characteristics canpromote high fitness values? Give…

A: Darwinian fitness is defined as the capacity to contribute offspring to the next generation.

Q: Which population would be the most susceptible to genetic drift?     a population of ten individuals…

A: Genetic drift is a random change in the frequencies of alleles from generation to generation due to…

Q: A population consists of 7 mice. For the coat color trait, there are only two alleles: brown (B) and…

A: The alleles are the alternative forms of a gene that are located on the same locus of a homologous…

Q: The graphs below show the change in allele frequency over 500 generations of natural selection. The…

A: Natural selection- it is a process that makes any living population to adapt and change for their…

Q: This is a graph of the expected frequency of a deleterious allele, with a constant mutation rate,…

A: This question have following parts therefore answer are as below: (I) The above graph is XY graph…

Q: What is the number of dominant alleles in a population of 100 ladybugs with the following genotypes…

A: Given 30 BB, Dominant 60 Bb, heterozygous 10 bb Recessive

Q: A hypothetical population was found to have a genotype frequency of AA=20%, Aa=40%, aa=40%.  What…

A: Hardy-Weinberg provides the null hypothesis that links the alleles and the genotypes in the…

Q: When only a few individuals survive unfavorable times, thereby losing a majority of genotypes in the…

A: A group of individuals of same species residing in same area is called as population. Allele…

Q: Why is a balanced frequency of different alleles of a gene in a population more useful for the…

A: Introduction :- A variable form of a gene is known as an allele. Some genes exist in several…

Q: In general, what is the effect of complete selection, migration and random genetic drift on the gene…

A: The fraction or proportion of a population that bears an allele (i.e., one kind of gene variant) at…

Q: Population and Quantitative Genetics.  Assume the mean value for Trait A in Generation 0 is 0.5.…

A: From the base population, the individuals are selected with the desired phenotypic value. These…

Q: To decrease the population size of the organisms in the simulation? Starting frequency of allele A1…

A: AlleleA1 is a software used for the study of population genetics to study the evolutionary…

Q: If a population has gene frequencies of p=0.52 and q=0.48, what will be the genotype frequencies in…

A: Group of individuals of the same species inhabiting a specific geographical area is called a…

Q: Based on the class data from Experiment I, for each of the three populations, describe the effect of…

A: Key points Genetic drift is a mechanism of evolution in which allele frequencies of a population…

Q: How would you respond to someone who said that models are useless in studying population genetics…

A: Population genetics involves the study of genetic difference within the population. It involves the…

Q: The goal of many captive breeding programs like zoos is to maintain 90% genetic diversity over 100…

A: Question - The goal of many captive breeding programs like zoos is to maintain 90% genetic diversity…

Q: In 1960, what is the expected number recessive individuals in a population of 500 mice? Just give…

A: A population that is well suited to the environment reaches reproductive maturity. The population…

Q: In the gene pool of a population with 132 individuals, a fixed allele for a particular genetic locus…

A: Introduction :- A variable form of a gene is known as an allele. Some genes exist in several…

Q: subset of African diversity can be found in the genomes of all populations existing today. a. A…

A: The gap in the information not be so wide. Africa, the most hereditarily diverse landmass, is where…

Q: For each of the following statements, select the correct factor from the menu on the attached…

A: 1 . The process by which organisms with certain heritable traits survive, passing on their traits to…

Q: 1.00 AA Aa aa A 0.75 a 0.50 0.25 0.00 Generation (c) IIIII 2.

A: Random changes in the number of gene variants in a population are referred to as genetic drift. When…

Q: You sample a population of butterflies and find that 42% are heterozygous for a particular gene.…

A: Examples of natural selection are industrial melanism, drug resistance and sickle cell anaemia.…

Q: Which of the following are factors that can impact genetic variation in a population? (Select all…

A: Genetic variation means that variation or differences comes in the genetic constitution of the…

Q: If all copies of a given locus have the same allele throughout the population, the allele frequency…

A: The relative frequency of an allele at a given locus in a population, represented as a fraction or…

Q: gene flow makes populations more genetically similar ?True 0r False

A: Gene flow is a chance event in which there is transfer of genetic material from one population to…

Q: what would happen to the gene frequencies during this following scenarios? a. complete selection…

A: Changes in the gene frequencies :-

Q: there are 300 diploid individuals in a population, how many alleles are in the total gene pool?…

A: Diploid individuals have two set of chromosomes in the cell.  Alleles are the alternative form of…

Mitochondrial Mutations

A mitochondrion is a cellular organelle that serves as the site for cellular respiration and energy production (ATP or Adenosine Triphosphate). It is a double-membrane-bound organelle and is only present in eukaryotic cells.