Q. No.Persons with sickle cell trait are resistant to severe malaria. This shows:
1. heterozygote advantage
2. heterosis
3. punctuated equilibrium
4. reverse evolution
1. heterozygote advantage
2. heterosis
3. punctuated equilibrium
4. reverse evolution
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The most critical evolutionary process, that leads to changes in allele frequencies and favors or promotes adaptation as a product of evolution, is :
| 1. | Genetic drift | 2. | Gene migration |
| 3. | Mutation | 4. | Natural selection |
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The differential success in the reproduction, of an organism, in a given environment, is :
| 1. | Adaptation | 2. | Natural Selection |
| 3. | Adaptive radiation | 4. | Saltatory evolution |
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A small population experiences a sudden crash in size due to a natural calamity. The biggest threat to the population is:
1. loss of genetic variability
2. tendency towards assortative mating
3. reduced gene flow
4. Hardy - Weinberg disequilibrium
What exactly does the nature act upon when selecting an organism?
1. dominant alleles
2. recessive alleles
3. phenotype
4. combined genotype
Identify the incorrect statement:
| 1. | Neanderthals lived between 1,50,000 and 1,00,000 years back. |
| 2. | Modern Homo sapiens arose between 75000 and 10000 years ago. |
| 3. | Pre-historic cave art developed around 18000 years ago. |
| 4. | Agriculture came around 10000 years ago. |
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Which of the following would be an example of a population that can show the potential for rapid speciation?
1. small in number but highly variable gene pool
2. large in number with large variations in the gene pool
3.sexual dimorphism amongst members
4.isolated inbred population
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A population geneticist finds that a new allele in a population has suddenly increased in frequency. Most likely this allele is:
1. mutating rapidly
2. flowing with emigrants
3. strongly selected for
4. a product of assortative mating
Which of the following types of natural selection reduces variation but does not change the mean value?
| 1. | directional | 2. | stabilizing |
| 3. | disruptive | 4. | all of these |
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