Evolution, Population Genetics, Speciation, and Taxonomy Review Questions

  1. Discuss how allopatric speciation occurs. [answer]

  2. Is allopatric speciation more important than sympatric speciation? [answer]

  3. What does the Hardy-Weinberg law predict about the change in gene frequency from generation to generation? [answer]

  4. List the conditions that are necessary for the Hardy-Weinberg law. [answer]

  5. What is evolution? [answer]

  6. Name six processes that can change gene frequencies. [answer]

  7. Discuss how genetic drift can change gene frequencies. [answer]

  8. Discuss how the founder effect can change gene frequencies. [answer]

  9. What is a mutation? [answer]

  10. Why does natural selection occur? [answer]

  11. Define allopatric and sympatric. [answer]

  12. According to the punctuated equilibrium model, how does the speed of evolutionary change change?  [answer]

  13. Arrange the taxonomic categories in order from largest to smallest, that is, from the one that includes all others to the one that does not. (class, family, genus, kingdom, order, phylum, species) [answer]

 
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