What does it mean for an allele to be dominant?
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What does it mean for an allele to be recessive?
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What does it mean for a genotype to be homozygous?
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What does it mean for a genotype to be heterozygous?
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What does it mean for a genotype to be hemizygous?
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What is the difference between complete dominance, codominance, and incomplete dominance?
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What is the difference between penetrance and expressivity?
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With what phase of meiosis does each of Mendel's laws most closely correlate?
Mendel's 1st Law:
Mendel's 2nd Law:
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What are the three main types of point mutations?
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What change occurs in this type of point mutation:
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What change occurs in this type of point mutation:
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What change occurs in this type of point mutation:
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What are the two main types of frameshift mutations?
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What are the three main types of chromosomal mutations that do NOT share their name with a type of frameshift mutation? What change occurs in each?
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Why would genetic leakage in animals be rare prior to the last century?
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Why is genetic drift more common in small populations?
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What relationship does this fact, genetic drift is more common in small populations, have to the founder effect?
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For each of the crosses below, what is the phenotypic ratio seen in the offspring?
Bb x Bb
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For each of the crosses below, what is the phenotypic ratio seen in the offspring?
Aa x aa
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For each of the crosses below, what is the phenotypic ratio seen in the offspring?
DdEe x ddEE
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For each of the crosses below, what is the phenotypic ratio seen in the offspring?
X(q)X * XY
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For each of the crosses below, what is the phenotypic ratio seen in the offspring?
X(r)X * X(r)Y
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If genes Q and R have a recombination frequency of 2%, genes R and S have a recombination frequency of 6%, genes S and T have a recombination frequency of 23%, and genes Q and T have a recombination frequency of 19%, then what is the order of these four genes in the chromosome?
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All five criteria of the Hardy-Weinberg principle are required to imply what characteristic of the study population?
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Assume that a population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. If 9% of the population is homozygous dominant, then solve for the following:
the frequency of the dominant allele
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Assume that a population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. If 9% of the population is homozygous dominant, then solve for the following:
the frequency of the recessive allele
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Assume that a population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. If 9% of the population is homozygous dominant, then solve for the following:
the portion of the population that is heterozygous
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Assume that a population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. If 9% of the population is homozygous dominant, then solve for the following:
the portion of the population with a homozygous recessive genotype
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Assume that a population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. If 9% of the population is homozygous dominant, then solve for the following:
the portion of the population with a dominant phenotype
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What are the key tenets of the following theory of evolution?
Natural selection
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What are the key tenets of the following theory of evolution?
Modern synthesis model
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What are the key tenets of the following theory of evolution?
Inclusive fitness
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What are the key tenets of the following theory of evolution?
Punctuated equilibrium
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What are the three patterns of selection?
What changes would each create to the population phenotype?
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What are the three patterns of evolution?
What is the outcome of each one?
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What is the biological definition of species?
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