Hardy Weinberg's Principle

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Hardy Weinberg's Principle: Overview

This Topic covers sub-topics such as Genetic Drift, Speciation, Hardy-Weinberg Principle, Gene Pool, Founder Effect, Allopatric Speciation, Sympatric Speciation, Bottleneck Effect, Industrial Melanism, Parapatric Speciation and, Directional Selection

Important Questions on Hardy Weinberg's Principle

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If the high altitude birds become rare or extinct, the plants which may disappear along with them are

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Gene pool is referred to

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In a large, randomly mating population, only one person in 10,000 is an albino. What will be the frequency of a carrier person of albinism?

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The pattern of natural selection that converts a unimodal distribution of a given phenotype into a bimodal is:

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During industrial revolution, killing off which organism that grows on the trees turned the tree trunks black?

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In a diploid population at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, consider a locus with two alleles. The frequencies of these two alleles are denoted by p and q, respectively. Heterozygosity in this population is maximum at:

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The bill sizes in a bird species of seed crackers from West Africa shows a bimodal distribution. Their most abundant food sources are two types of marsh plants that produce hard and soft seeds, consumed preferentially by the large and small billed birds, respectively. This bimodal distribution of bill sizes is a likely consequence of

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In a population, NAA and Naa are the numbers of homozygous individuals of allele 'A' and 'a', respectively and NAa is the number of heterozygous individuals. Which one of the following options is the allele frequency of 'A' and 'a' in a population with NAA=90, NAa=40 and Naa=70?

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Assertion (A) : Geographical isolation brings about the sympatric speciation

Reason (R): If one species diverges to become two or more species, it is called cladogenesis

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Study the following statements and identify the incorrect statement regarding genetic drift

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In a population of 1000 individuals, 28% are homozygous dominant, 48% are heterozygous dominant, and the remaining are recessive. Find out the dominant allelic frequency.

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Which of the following schematic diagram best explains showing phenotypic distribution explains the "directional selection" due to natural selection:

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If a gene has four alleles, number of expected genotypes is

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In Hardy Weinberg population 2 pq represents:

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Industrial melanism is an example of:

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The organism studied for Industrial melanism was a 

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The sum total of genes present in all individuals of interbreeding or Mendelian population is called _____.

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Who first explained industrial melanism in moths?

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Industrial melanism is an example of 

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The "genetic drift" is also called as