Consider a heritable autosomal disease with an incidence in the population of 1 per thousand. On average, individuals with the disease have 80% as many children as the population average. In answering the various parts of this question, assume that mating is random. What mutation rate would be required to maintain the observed incidence of the disease in the population if the disease is dominant?

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

If the curve shifts to the left or to the right, there is no gene flow, and the population size consequently increases over successive generations, then which of these is (are) probably occurring?

#Question id: 3266

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

One species mates at the season when daylight is increasing from 13 hours to 13 hours, 15 minutes; another species mates at the season when daylight is increasing from 14 hours to 14 hours, 15 minutes. The isolating mechanism is

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

In a typical Mendelian population, individuals carrying gene ‘a’ in homozygous condition suffer from phenylketonurea. Those with A in homozygous condition are normal. Others, who are heterozygotic with Aa, are carriers. If the frequency of ‘a’ in a population is 0.20, what is the percentage of normal individual in the population?

#Question id: 3268

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

A population of insects is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for a gene with alleles A = orange and a = yellow eyes. There are 91% orange and 9% yellow individuals in the population. If the fitness of the yellow phenotype suddenly drops to zero, what will be the allele frequency in the next generation?

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Two plant species live in the same biome but on different continents. Although the two species are not at all closely related, they may appear quite similar as a result of

#Question id: 3270

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Heterozygote advantage should be most closely linked to which of the following?