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Sheet 14--Final Exam Flashcards

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What is balancing selection, and what is balanced polymorphism?

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balancing selection–number of selective processes by which multiple alleles are actively maintained in the gene pool of a population at frequencies above that of gene mutation

balanced polymorphism- situation in which two different versions of a gene are maintained in a population of organisms because individuals carrying both versions are better able to survive than those who have two copies of either version alone—-This is maintained through balancing selection

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what is frequency dependent selection?

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fitness of a genotype depends on its frequency

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what is kin selection and what is altruism?

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apparent strategies in evolution that favor the reproductive success of an organism’s relatives, even at a cost to their own survival

altruism-selflessness is the principle or practice of concern for the welfare of others

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what kinds of evidence support the existence of microevoultion?

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what is industrial melanism?

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darkness—of the skin, feathers, or fur—acquired by a population of animals living in an industrial region where the environment is soot-darkened.

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what is the best example of microevolution in human beings?

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aids resistence with CCR5

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why do we think that the frequency of sickle cell anemia is much higher in central africa?

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Selective force in Africa is presence of malaria. Maintenance of allele has adaptive value in Africa

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since sickle cell anemia is usually lethal, why hasnt it been eliminated by natural selection?

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why do humans living in tropical regions have dark skins while those in the north have light skins?

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What are the two general ways in which DNA is altered?

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radiation and chemical mutagens

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What are the 3 ways mutations arise?

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1) DNA damage
2) chromosomal Rearrangement
3) Transposition

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what are four types of mutations?

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1) point mutations–base changes
2) small deletions or insertions– frame shifts
3) large deletions or insertions
4) rearrangements of large pieces of DNA

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What are point mutations?

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involve small numbers of bases

  • -can include base substitutions and indels–both insertions and deletions
  • -affect one gene
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what is an indel?

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short way to refer to insertions or deletions

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what are base substitution mutations?

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chagne in the base that results in:

  • -change in the amnino acid sequence
  • -change in the stop codon
    • add or remove an intron splice site
  • –substitution is a type of point mutation
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what are indels? what are they lumped together?

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  • -mutations resulting from an insertion or a deletion of bases
  • -causes a frameshift
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why are indels usually more deleterious than base substitutions?

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indels change the entire message
–CAT CAT CAT
—-remove A
CTC ATC ATC

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What are the two ways DNA gets damaged?

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  • -mistakes during DNA replications

- -chemical decomposition

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what sorts of spontaneous mutations occur during and what occur after DNA replication?

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During DNA replication:

  • –mispaired bases
  • – misaligned bases

After DNA replication:

  • -Deaminatino of C to U
  • -depurination–loss of A or G
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what are the two classes of mutagens?

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radiation and chemicals

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what sorts of mutations are caused by X-Rays?

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double stranded breaks cause deletions, insertions, and rearrangements

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22
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What mutations are cuased by sun tanning?

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UV causes formation of thymine dimers

–point mutatinos

23
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what sorts of mutations are cause by cigarette smoke?

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base substitution

24
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what sorts mutations caused by intercalating chemicals?

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insert into DNA and cause frame shift mutations

25
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what are the 3 ways that genetic recombination can alter hereditary information?

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1) chromosomal rearrangement
2) gene transfer
3) transposition

26
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how can chromosomes get rearranged, and how can this chagne the genetic information?

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Rearrangement of chromosomes is due to:

  • -unequal recombination during crossing over
    • improper repair of broken chromosomes including inversions
  • -translocatinos, deletions, insertions

Genetic information is changed due to:

    • mutations
  • -information placed in a new setting; informations is added or lost
27
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how can genes get transferred between organisms?

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transfer of plasmids

–viruses- add their genome to host genome

28
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how can plasmids get transferred between bacteria?

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  • -bacteria copy of plasmid
  • -sex pilus forms conjugation bridge
  • -bacteria can also pick up naked DNA
29
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how can viruses transfer genes?

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viruses insert their viral genome into the host DNA

30
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what are the two classes of transposons, what is the main difference between them?

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Transposons– mobile piece of DNA, inserts into genes at random, the insertion is one of most significant causes of mutation
types:
1) simplest transposons (insertion sequence)
—transposase gene and its recognitino sequence
—frequently get more complicated
———acquire drug resistanec genes and move into plasmids

2) retro viruses (nucleic acid is RNA)
- —resemble retro viruses; some genes and lifestyle
- —make RNA copy
- –revese transcriptase makes DNA copy of RNA
- -integrase inserts DNA copy at new site of host DNA

31
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why do we think that retrotransposons and retro viruses are closely related?

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same genes and lifestyle

  • -use reverse transcriptase to make DNA copy
    ex. HIV
32
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why do transposons cause mutations?

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insert into genes; encoded protein has a large meaningless chunk inserted into it, disrupting its structure
—this is insertional inactivation

33
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why do we distringuish between evolution of genes and evolution of genomes?

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genome contains many elemets other than genes, often coding sequences are less than 5% of genome

34
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what are the 3 classes of human DNA sequences, and what do you find in each class?

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1) highly repeated sequences (satellites)
- –code for nothing
- –millions/cell
- –make chromosomes longer
- –found near centromere or ends of chromosomes(telomeres)

2) moderatly repeatd sequences
- -thousands/cell
- —–a) transposons
- —–B) structural
- ———–centromeres
- ———–matrix attachement: DNA sequence to attach extended loops to scaffold
- ———–telemoeres protect chomosome ends
- ——C) multigene families: histones
- —–D) microsatellites==excess cause many diseases (used for human DNA/fingerprinting because vary alot)

3) unique= most genes

35
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What are the structural elements, and what kinds of structural elements do we find in genomes?

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centromeres

–scaffolding attachment regions

36
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what are microsatellites and how can they affect humans?

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nucldeotide repeats, sometimes 6-30 or 20-200

–excess cause disease

37
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what is copy number variation and why is it important to human health?

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individual humans differ gentically by 10 million base pairs

  • -these frequently has to do with the number of copies of a certain gene then have in tandem
  • -susceptibility to many disease, includng aids, has been correlated with the number of copies of particular genes
38
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what is the difference between macroevoultion and micro evoultion?

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Macroevoultion– formation of new species gradual
–due to microevoultion

Microevoultion– chagne in the frequencies of alleles in a population over time

evoultion– the change in the frequencies of alleles in a population over time

39
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what is a population and why must we study population to understand evoultion?

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  • -group of individuals of same species in same area, can interbreed
  • -populations evolve, not individuals
40
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what is population genetics?

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study of how genes behave in a population?

41
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what is a gene pool?

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sum of all alleles in all individuals in the population

42
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why do populations geneticists measure allele frequencies and how do they measure them?

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chagne in allele frequencies= evoultion

–use Hard Weinberg equilibrium

43
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Why is Hardy weinberg equibrium rarely achieved and why is it useful?

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it predicts equibrium–no change, no evoultion
–this never occurs in nature

Useful:

  • -population geneticists compare observed frequcies with those predictd by H-W to identify whats happening
  • -this provides a starting point for studying changes in the gene pool of a population
44
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what are 5 main causes of microevoultion, which of these factors is most likly to be adaptive?

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1) mutation
2) migration (gene flow)
3) genetic drive
4) non random mating
5) natural selection–*most adaptive

45
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what is genetic drift and what is the differenec between genetic drift and gene flow?

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genetic drift

  • -changes in allele frequency in small population
  • -small isloated population become very differnt (random)
  • -includes founder principle and bottleneck effect

Gene flow= migration: movement of individuals from one population to another

  • -alters composition of gene pool
    • tends to homogenie allele frequency in populations
46
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difference between founder effect and genetic bottleneck?

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founder effect:

  • -few individuals start a new, isloated populations
  • -an allele that is rare in source population may become significant new population
  • -important in oceanic island evoultin

bottleneck effect:
–populations randomly greatly reduced in size
– surviving individuals represent random genetic sample of orginal population
ex cheetahs

47
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why is inbreeding an unwise practice?

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homozygosity–increases liklyhood of genetic disorders

48
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why are many breeds of pure bred dogs “going to the dogs”

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difficult to predict genetic outcomes

49
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what is hybrid vigor?

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heterozygote is better adapted than either parent

  • -useful in corn breeding for example
  • AA x aa=Aa
50
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How does heritable variation arise?*

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mutation and recombination

51
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which of the following mutations is most likely to be lethal to an organism?

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deletion of a single base near the start of a coding sequence

52
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why do many retrovirses cause cancer?

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they have added and oncogene from a former host to their genome, which they then add to the genome of each new host

53
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what is the difference between microevoultion and macroevoultion?

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microevoultion is changes in the populations gene pool, macroevoultion is formation of a new species

54
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beardless females?

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square root of 0.01

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