Final: Mechanisms of Evolution Flashcards
1
Q
What are the five tenets?
A
- Superfacundity
- Variation
- Competition
- Selective Advantage
- Reproduction
2
Q
What is genetic drift?
A
AKA bottleneck effect
change in allele frequency due to random chance
could be a catastrophic event but doesn’t have to be
3
Q
What is gene flow?
A
2+ distinct populations of individuals that interbreed resulting in variation
