Mary Jones and Geoff Jones Solutions for Chapter: Variation and Natural Selection, Exercise 3: Questions

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Questions from Mary Jones and Geoff Jones Solutions for Chapter: Variation and Natural Selection, Exercise 3: Questions with Hints & Solutions

MEDIUM
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

Explain why the proportion of dark peppered moths near Manchester in Britain increased at the end of the 19th century.

EASY
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

Why is it unwise to use antibiotics unnecessarily?

EASY
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

What is meant by stabilizing selection? Give one example.

MEDIUM
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

Draw a genetic diagram to show how two heterozygous parents can have a child with sickle cell anaemia? 

MEDIUM
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

Imagine you are a farmer with a herd of dairy cattle. You want to build up a herd with a very high production of milk. You have access to sperm samples from bulls, for each of which there are records of the milk production of his offspring. What will you do?

EASY
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

Describe how you could use artificial selection to produce a new variety of wheat which is naturally resistant to yellow rust?

MEDIUM
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

When resistant varieties of wheat are produced, it is found that after a few years they are infected by yellow rust again. Explain how this might happen.

MEDIUM
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

How could the growing of resistant varieties reduce pollution?