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What would casue a mutated allele to increase in frequency in a population?
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∙ 12y ago
If it confered a reproductive advantage to the organism it resided in. This would drive representation of the allele higher in the populations gene pool; increase in frequency.
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What factor determines whether the frequency of the new allele will increase?
Which factor might determine whether the frequency of the new allele will increase in a population where a mutation occurs?
What effect does natural selection have on the allele frequency of a population?
In the next generation that trait increases in frequency above the frequency in the current generation.
What Is the percentage of a particular allele in a population?
Allele frequency.
How will the allele change in the rat population?
Evolution is the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms. Rats too!
What effect does a bottleneck have on the allele frequency of a population?
A bottleneck can lead to a significant reduction in the genetic diversity of a population, causing certain alleles to be lost and others to become more common. This can increase the frequency of rare alleles and result in genetic drift, potentially leading to an increase in genetic diseases or reduced fitness in the population.
What is allele fixation?
An allele present in all members of a population
What is meant allele frequency?
How often a certain allele (or trait) occurs in a certain population.
Can the genotype in a population change with the allele frequency changing?
Yes, the ratios of genotypes for a specific trait can change if allele frequency changes.
Could you define Minor and major allele frequency?
A minor allele is the allele that has the least frequency among all the alleles in a given population and this has to be greater than 5%.
What is the distribution of a particular allele within a population called?
Based on the Hardy-Weinberg Principle the rate at which a particular allele occurs in a population is its frequency.
Which is an example of genetic drift?
Allele frequencies change randomly each generation. APEX
What happen when a population is in a Hardy equilibrium?
Allele frequency is stable The phenotype frequency does not change.
