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1. The mutation rates affect the evolution of the population by two factors. Firstly, every new mutation overcomes the effects of survival. When new mutations exist in one or two individuals, they are often lost from the population due to genetic drift, or change. For example, the mutation may never make it to a gamete and may get lost. Secondly, the selective value of the mutation can determine its affect of the population. If it's harmful then the selection would act to reduce its frequency and eventually remove it.
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How does the mutation rate affect the speed at which a population adapts to its environment?
it blends in with its surroundings.
What five conditions control that rate at which evolution occurs?
Generation time, mutation rate, asexual vs sexual reproduction, strength of selective pressures, population size
Which is not a difference between a population showing exponential growth and a population showing logistic growth?
Mutation Rate
How can we increase your evolution?
Ehr, I'd rather you didn't...Evolution is not an individual thing; it's something measured in terms of changing allele frequencies in entire populations.It's also something that can't be increased or decreased. You can increase the rate of evolution, for instance by increasing the rate of mutation, but there isn't something like a higher or lower "state of evolution".
What can affect the human population size?
birth rate & death rate,fertility rate.
How do birth rate and death rate affect a country's population?
If the birth rate is higher than the death rate, the population increases. If the death rate is higher than the birth rate, the population decreases.
What is the definition for rapid evolution?
Rapid evolution is where the subjective species in a population is considered to be evolving in an unusually high frequency and rate, thus 'rapid' evolution is occuring.
Does the amount of chromosomes in a species affect its rate of evolution?
The "rate" of evolution is most accurately gauged in terms of divergence between genetic sequences. Chromosomes are basically groupings of such sequences. It is certainly possible that the number and order of these groupings affect future developments (for instance: polyploidy and chromosomal fusions can affect speciation events), but they do little to affect the overall "rate" of divergence.
How birth rate and death rate affect on population size?
The birth rate affects the size of population because of what its like. And the death rate is more than you can imagine.
How does population size affect the likelihood of changes in allele frequencies by chance alone?
Mutation rates are small but constant. With a typical mutation rate of 1 x 10-6, it is expected that 1 out of a million individuals in a population will carry the mutation. If the population size is small (10,000 or fewer individuals), the probability that the mutation will be present is small (~1% with 104 individuals). If population sizes are large (107 or more individuals), the probability that the mutation will be present is large (~10 mutants expected if 107 individuals are in the population). Mutations can be lost from populations through genetic drift, and large populations experience less genetic drift than small populations. Thus mutations are more likely to exist and persist in large populations than in small populations.
What are the factors that affect a population's size size?
the factor are Death Rate Birth Rate Immigration
What factors do you think affect your country's population growth in cuba?
death rate birth rate
