How can evolution select for phenotypes that postpone reproduction or sexual maturity?” There is often a trade-off between reproduction and maintenance, and in many species reproduction and senescence are closely linked. Recent studies of mice, Caenorhabditis elegans, and Drosophila suggest that there is a conserved genetic pathway that regulates aging and that it can indeed be selected for. This pathway involves the response to insulin and insulin-like growth factors, Name of these transcription factors are

#Question id: 3374

#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

Consider an autosomal locus with two alleles A1 and A2 at frequencies of 0.6 and 0.4 respectively. Each generation, A1 mutates to A2 at a rate of μ = 1 x 10-2 while A2 mutates to A1 at a rate of υ = 1 x 10-1) Assume that the population is infinitely large and no other evolutionary force is acting. The overall change in allelic frequency will be

#Question id: 3375

#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

Which of the following combination is correct?

#Question id: 3375

#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

Which of the following combination is correct?

#Question id: 3376

#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

The frequencies of two allele’s p and q for a gene locus in a population at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium are 0.6 and 0.4, respectively. After a few generations of inbreeding, the heterozygote frequency was found to be 0.10, The inbreeding coefficient in this case is

#Question id: 3377

#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

To call a behavior altruistic, an evolutionary biologist will have to demonstrate that

A) These behavior is decrease the individual fitness of the donor and increases the individual fitness of the recipient

B) These behavior is increases the individual fitness of both the donor and the recipient

C) Overall increase the inclusive fitness of the population

D) These behavior depend on genetic relation

Which of the following above statement is correct?

#Question id: 3378

#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

Following certain conditions is present in a population?

A- Large Population

B- Each locus follows complete dominance

C- No reproductive advantage

D- No migration

E- No linkage between genes

Which of the following above condition allowed to validity of Hardy- Weinberg Prediction?