After Reading This Chapter, You Should Be Able to Answer These Questions:
In evolutionary terms, what is a population? |
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What is genetic equilibrium? Can a population ever be in genetic equilibrium? |
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What are some of the uses of the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium model? |
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The chapter discusses five major mechanisms of evolutionary change. What are they? |
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What does it mean when we say that mutations are random? What causes mutations? Mutations are the main source of which biological phenomenon? |
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What are the differences between genetic drift, population bottlenecking, and the founder principle? |
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How does gene flow change the gene pool of a population? |
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In what ways is mating nonrandom? How does nonrandom mating change the gene pool? |
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In the simplest terms, what is natural selection? |