Evolutionary Analysis Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Evolutionary Analysis Final question with complete solution 2023 passedAdaptation - correct answer a trait or integrated suite of traits that increases the fitness of its possessor • Differences among populations or species are not always adaptive • Not every trait of an organism use of every trait by an organism is an adaptation • Not every adaptation is perfect Example of testing various hypotheses of adaptions - correct answer -looked at tick load, mean number of wounds, a...

Evolutionary Analysis Chapter 1 End of chapter questions and answers graded A+ already passed The pope said " (HIV) cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, they increase it" Is the popes first statement correct? How about his second statement? How do we know? - correct answer The Pope's first statement is that Africa's problem with HIV/AIDS "cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms." The statement is true in that no single strategy will prevent the t...

Evolutionary Analysis Ch 6 question and answers graded A+ 2023 passedpopulation - correct answer group of interbreeding individuals and their offspring genetic drift - correct answer blind luck that can cause a population to evolve unpredictably Hardy-Weinberg conclusion 1 - correct answer the allele frequencies will no change generation after generation Hardy-Weinberg conclusion 2 - correct answer If the allele frequencies in a population are given by p and q, the genotype frequencies ...

Evolutionary Analysis Ch 16 question well answered rated A+ 2023The smallest evolutionarily independent unit of life. - correct answer Species What factors cause evolutionary independent units to arise? - correct answer mutation, selection, genetic drift Speciation requires that there is absolutely no ___ between populations. - correct answer blending/gene flow What are the three most widely used "species concepts" that have been proposed to define species? - correct answer Morphospec...

Evolutionary Analysis ch 7 question and answers graded A+ 2023 already passedMigration - correct answer the movement of alleles between populations homogenize - correct answer High levels of migration ________ populations. Migration has a larger impact of this on small populations than large populations. sampling error - correct answer In a small population, chance events produce outcomes that differ from theoretical expectations. This kind of random discrepancy between the theoretical and...

Evolutionary Analysis ch 3 question and answers graded A+ 2023 already passed Darwinian fitness - correct answer the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce in its environment adaptation - correct answer trait or characteristic of an organism heritability - correct answer the proportion of the varitation observed in a population that is due to variation in genes. varies between 0 and 1 Issues that complicate heritability estimates - correct answer misidentified paternity, cons...

Evolutionary Analysis Ch 12 question and answers graded A+ 2023mutualism - correct answer +/+ interaction altruism - correct answer -/+ interaction selfishness - correct answer +/- interaction spite - correct answer -/- interaction coefficient of relatedness - correct answer r, this is the probability that homologous alleles in two individuals are identical by descent Hamilton's rule - correct answer States that an allele for altruistic behavior will spread if Br-C > 0 where B...

Evolutionary Analysis Ch.9 questions fully solved graded A+ 2023 best-fit line - correct answer The line that most accurately represents the trend of the data in a scatterplot; typically best-fit lines are calculated by least-squares linear regression. likelihood ratio - correct answer Spontaneous movement of a substance from a region of high concentration to one of low concentration (i.e., down a concentration gradient). independence (statistical) - correct answer Lack of association amo...

Evolutionary Analysis Chapter 1 Study Questions and answers graded A+ 2023First in number of people infected with HIV - correct answer Sub Saharan Africa Second in number of people infected with HIV - correct answer India and Southeast Asia Third in number of people infected with HIV - correct answer North America Fourth in number of people infected with HIV - correct answer China fifth in number of people infected with HIV - correct answer Europe Homosexual sex is the major ...

Bio 414: Evolutionary Analysis Chapter 1 CORRECTLY Answered to pass 2023Who wrote the famous phrase, "nothing in Biology makes sense except in the light of evolution?" - correct answer Theodosius Dobzhansky (1973). A modern biologist criticized anti-evolution creationism. What virus causes AIDS? - correct answer Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) What's the worst epidemic in human history, and how many people did it kill? - correct answer 1918 Influenza Virus. Killed 50-100 million. ...