Important Terms - Lecture 17

Microevolution

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Microevolution

Cline

Individual, population, species

Diploid, haploid

Gene pool, gene, allele

Balanced polymorphism

Homozygous, heterozygous

Heterozygote advantage, hybrid vigor

Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

Frequency dependent selection

Allelic frequencies

Patchy environments

Genotype, phenotype

Neutral variation

Dominant, recessive

Fitness

Genetic drift

Relative fitness

Bottleneck effect, founder effect

Selection coeficient

Gene flow, migration

Pleiotropy, polygenic inheritance

Mutation

Norm of reaction

Inbreeding

Coadapted gene complexes

Assortative mating

Stabilizing, directional, diversifying selection

Natural selection

Sexual selection

Recombination

Phylogenetic constraints, trade-offs

Crossing over

 

Polymorphism

 

What is an example where normal (natural) selection and sexual selection may work in opposite directions?

 

If we manage to rescue species such as the whooping crane or the California condor, what problems might the resulting populations have as global climate change starts to occur? Why would they have more of a problem adapting than other widespread species?

 

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