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?

#Question id: 11184

#Section 2: Evolution

Eggs that develop into adults without being fertilized are

#Question id: 9155

#Section 2: Evolution

The success of plants extending their range northward following glacial retreat is primarily determined by ________.

#Question id: 10616

#Section 2: Evolution

In a study of tree dispersion in a forest, we divided the forest into 1 sq km grid cells, choose 50 of them at random, and counted the number of trees in each cell. The means to variance ratio of the counts of trees per cell was much less than 1. What does this tell us about the spatial distribution of the trees?

#Question id: 10626

#Section 2: Evolution

Following is a hypothetical life table of species.

Following some statement is given

A- Proportional of survive is constant over different age group

B- Greater mortality in young age

C. Follow type II survivorship curve

D. Follow type III survivorship curve

Which of the following above statement is correct?

#Question id: 16754

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution