Exam 13: How Populations Evolve

The presence of freckles is due to a dominant allele.Four percent of the individuals in a particular population lack freckles.Use the Hardy-Weinberg formula to calculate the percentage of individuals in this population who are homozygous dominant for freckles.

Which of the following examples results from stabilizing selection?

The figure below shows the percent of selected DNA sequences that match between a chimpanzee and other primates.These data support the hypothesis that ________.

________ believed that use (or lack of use)of body parts enables individual to develop certain traits that it passes on to its offspring while ________ believed that species are fixed forms that do not change over time.

Which is NOT a benefit of the understanding of evolution to understanding the field of biology?

The founder effect differs from a population bottleneck in that the founder effect ________.

Which of the following is a characteristic of a population at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?

Which of the following statements about the voyage of the Beagle is TRUE?

If the frequency of one allele in a population is 0.7 in a population with two alleles at a particular locus,what is the frequency of the alternate allele?

The first basic idea of evolutionary adaptation can be traced back to ________.