TOPIC 4- Investigating diversity

Question 1

How is gnetic diversity compared?

Answer 1

-Thefrequencyu of observablecharacteristcs
-The base sequence of DNA
-The base sequence of mRNA
-The amino acid sequence of the proteins encoded by DNA and mRNA

Question 2

Defione variation

Answer 2

the differences that existbetween individuals

Question 3

Whatare some possible causes of variation?

Answer 3

-Genetic factors
-Differences in the enviroment (climate, lifestyle,food)

Question 4

Why do we use population samples?

Answer 4

-It would be too time consuming tolook at the whole population
-You would not be able to catch all of the population

Question 5

Why is random sampling used?

Answer 5

-So the sample is representitive so patterns can beaccuratley observed
-So the sample is not biased
-Make sureany variation observed is not due to chance

Question 6

What is the formulae to work out the mean?

Answer 6

Mean=
total number of all the values in your data
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The number ofvalues in your data