CH 23 FOLLOW UP

1. Which of the following is the best example of gene flow?

a.
2.

Whichstatementcorrectlydescribestheroleofchanceinevolution?

a.
3.

Wind blows pollen from one population of plants to

another and cross-fertilization occurs.
The ultimate source of new alleles is mutation, random
changes in the nucleotide sequences of an organisms
DNA.

Allelefrequenciescanbealteredby__________.

a.

genetic drift

b.

natural selection

c.

gene flow

d.
All of the listed responses are correct.
4. Which type of mutation plays the most important role in
increasing the number of genes in the gene pool?
a.

Duplication

5.

Theevolutionaryeffectsofgeneticdriftaregreatestwhen_____.

6.

Whichofthefollowingmechanismscanformentirelynewalleles?

7.

Allelefrequenciesinagenepoolmayshiftrandomlyandbychance.Whatisthisrandomshift
called?

8.

Whatsituationmostlikelyexplainstheoccasionalhighfrequencyofcertaininheriteddisorders
amonghumanpopulationsestablishedbyasmallpopulation?

9.

Thereare40individualsinpopulation1,allwithgenotypeA1A1,andthereare25individualsin
population2,allwithgenotypeA2A2.Assumethatthesepopulationsarelocatedfarfromeach
otherandthattheirenvironmentalconditionsareverysimilar.Basedontheinformationgiven
here,theobservedgeneticvariationismostlikelyanexampleof

a.

the population size is small

a. Mutation
a.
a.

a.

genetic drift
founder effect

genetic drift.

10. Apopulationof15birdsinhabitsafairlynewisland.Tenofthebirdsaredarkbrownandfiveof
themarelightbrown.Bychance,twoofthedarkbrownbirdsandthreeofthelightbrownbirds
diebeforeproducinganyoffspring.Allofthebirdsinthenextgenerationaredarkbrown.This
changeinphenotypicfrequencycanbeattributedto__________.

a.

genetic drift

11. Whichofthefollowingscenarioswouldmostlikelyresultinthemicroevolutionofapopulationof
humans?

a.

A colony of humans on the moon is isolated from Earth.

12. Selectionthatactsoverevolutionarytimetopreservetraitsthatincreaseanindividual'sabilityto
mateisknownas__________.

a. Sexual selection

13. Anearthquakehitsasmallisland.Allbutasmallgroupofcloselyrelatedlizardsareeliminated,
andthesurvivorsspreadoutovertheisland.Thisisaninstanceof__________.

a. bottleneck effect
14. Whichtypeofselectionmaintainsstablefrequenciesoftwoormorephenotypicformsina
population?

a.

balancing selection

15. Whichofthefollowingwouldseemtobeanexampleofneutralvariation?
a.
human fingerprints
16. Antibioticresistanceinbacteriaisanexampleofwhichofthefollowing?
a.
directional selection
17. Apopulationofsquirrelsispreyedonbysmallhawks.Thesmallersquirrelscanescapeinto
burrows.Thelargersquirrelscanfightoffthehawks.Afterseveralgenerations,thesquirrelsinthe
areatendtobeverysmallorverylarge.Whatprocessisresponsibleforthisoutcome?
a.
b.

disruptive selection