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Genetic Drift

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  • Random
  • a major short term cause of change in alleles
  • random change due to sampling error
  • depends on population size= inverse relationship
  • bottleneck
  • eventually causes loss in genetic variation
  • founder effect
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founder effect

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  • a few disperse to another area and are the founders

- type of genetic drift

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spatial subdivision

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patchy food, nesting sites, or other habitat features

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Gene Flow

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  • movement of individuals or gametes between subpopulations
  • migration
  • keep populations from becoming different from each other genetically
  • counteracts genetic drift
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Local gene flow

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slows down rate of adaptation

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Global gene flow

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speeds up rate of adaptation

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characteristics of NON evolving population

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  • no net mutations
  • population large:no genetic drift
  • population isolated: no gene flow
  • mating is random
  • no natural selection
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Natural Selection

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  • adaptive changes

- allows organisms to track changes in local environments

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adaption

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process where a characteristic is improved for specific function

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3 conditions for Natural Selection

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  • phenotypic variation
  • fitness differences
  • underlying genetic variation
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fittness

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measure of relative reproductive success

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w=

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fittness

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juvenilization

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keeping pup characteristics

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pleitropy

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where a single gene simultaneously affect multiple traits

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duplications

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important in the evolution of gene families

16
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prevent natural selection

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all phenotypic variation is caused by environment