#Question id: 3417
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
In balancing selection, two or more alleles are kept in balance, and therefore are maintained in a population over the course of many generations. Which of the following example can support balancing natural selection?
A- Sickle cell allele kept in balance because heterozygotes have greater chance of survival if infected by the malarial parasite, compared with normal homozygotes
B. One morph has selective advantage over another morph
C. One homozygote has greater chance of survival than other genotype results in purity of population
D. many species of invertebrates exist as different colored forms, identical in all respects except color. Visually searching predators often develop a search image for one color form, usually the commoner
#Question id: 3418
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
Which of the best explanation of directional natural selection occur by change in environmental condition?
A. Increase in the frequency of dark-colored mutants in polluted areas, became known as industrial melanism
B. Numerous insect pests become resistant to insecticides and numerous bacteria become resistant to antibiotics.
C. A plant that is too short may not be able to compete with other plants for sunlight. However, extremely tall plants may be more susceptible to wind damage
D- Beetles move into a new environment with patches of light-green moss and dark-green shrubs, both light and dark beetles might be better hidden (and survive better) than medium-green beetles
#Question id: 3419
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
Which of the following is correct statement?
A. Co-evolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection.
B. Co-evolution is likely to happen when different species have close ecological interactions with one another.
C. Plant and insect is classical example of co-evolution to maintain ecological interaction
D. Co-evolution is likely to evolution of similar trait in different species
#Question id: 3420
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
Following are key points about the effect of genetic drift:
A. Genetic drift is significant in small populations.
B. Genetic drift can cause allele frequencies to change in a pre-directed way.
C. Genetic drift can lead to a loss of genetic variation within populations.
D. Genetic drift can cause harmful alleles to become fixed.
Which one of the following combination of the above statements are true?
#Question id: 3421
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
Following figure show fitness variation the presence of natural selection and frequency of genotype before natural selection. What will be effect on the frequency of phenotype? (Y axis- Frequency of genotype, X axis – phenotype)
#Question id: 3422
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
Micro-evolution is the term used for changes in allele frequencies that occur over time.
A) It gives rise to changes in the gene pool, which results in few changes in the same species
B) It occur above species level
C) New addition, deletion in the genetic structure, resulting in the formation of new species
D) It changes occurs over short time scales
Which of the following combinations is correct?