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What effect does natural selection have on the allele frequency of a population?
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∙ 8y ago
In the next generation that trait increases in frequency above the frequency in the current generation.
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∙ 14y agoIt will increase in frequency.
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What does natural selection cause in a population on a genetic level?
Change in the allele frequency within the gene pool. ?
Which is more likely to be true natural selection or evolution?
Evolution, of course. Evolution can happen without natural selection in some cases; drift, flow. Generally though, natural selection causes evolution and then, by definition, would come first.
Would evolution stop if there were no natural selection?
No, but adaptive change would be difficult. Remember, evolution is the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms. Mutation, genetic drift, genetic flow and other processes would continue without natural selection.
What was primarily acting to change the frequency of the sickle-cell allele in the overall U.S. population?
The absence of the selection pressure malaria. Without selection, in the form of the malarial environment, the sickle cell allele will be lost in the overall US population. Even the heterozygous condition is somewhat deleterious and, statistically without malarial selection pressure the allele will be selected out.
Is it likely to find natural population in hardy-weinberg equilibrium?
Allele frequency is stable
What does natural selection cause in a population on a genetic level?
Change in the allele frequency within the gene pool. ?
How does environmental pressure affect natural selection?
When nothing happens to exert strong population pressure on that population, natural selection favors the allele frequency already present. When mutations cause new traits, natural selection weeds these traits out because they're not as efficient as the others.
Which force of evolution makes a population more alike?
Stabilizing selection occurs when the extreme forms of some trait are selected against by natural selection. It is a force of natural selection which causes evolution (definition: change of allele frequency in a population divided by time).
How do adaptations connect to evolution?
Adaptive change is the province of natural selection and natural selection is one of the main drivers of evolution. Natural selection selects from the individuals variations in a population of organisms on, basically, reproductive success and this adaption is passed on to progeny which changes the allele frequency in the population which is evolution.
What effect does natural selection have on the frequency of a recessive lethal allele?
Perhaps not much as the recessive allele is masked in heterozygous condition. Depends on penetration and expresivity of the lethal allele, but any homozygous expression is fatal, so one can expect negative frequency selection; the freqiency is kept low by selection.
What indicates that evolution is occurring in a population in genetic terms?
In terms of a population, evolution is just the change of allele frequencies over time. Natural selection can cause certain advantageous alleles to increase in frequency, and detrimental alleles to decrease in frequency.
Which is more likely to be true natural selection or evolution?
Evolution, of course. Evolution can happen without natural selection in some cases; drift, flow. Generally though, natural selection causes evolution and then, by definition, would come first.
A random change in a population's allele frequency?
Evolution is the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms. By mutation, genetic drift, gene flow and natural selection.
Does natural selection cause a change in the gene frequencies of the population over time?
Recessive genes are replaced by dominant genes over time and unfavorable genes die out.
Would evolution stop if there were no natural selection?
No, but adaptive change would be difficult. Remember, evolution is the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms. Mutation, genetic drift, genetic flow and other processes would continue without natural selection.
What is natural selection and how does natural selection evolution?
A simplified explanation. Natural selection is the nonrandom survival and reproductive success of randomly varying organisms who by this reproductive success change the allele frequency over time in populations of organisms, which is evolution.
What was primarily acting to change the frequency of the sickle-cell allele in the overall U.S. population?
The absence of the selection pressure malaria. Without selection, in the form of the malarial environment, the sickle cell allele will be lost in the overall US population. Even the heterozygous condition is somewhat deleterious and, statistically without malarial selection pressure the allele will be selected out.
