Answer:
Because genetic drift (Founder effect) is acting on this population. Not all the Hardy weinberg criteria are accomplished. There are no random matings and populations are finite-sized.
Explanation:
This is a special case of genetic drift: the founder effect.
The “Founder effect” phenomenon refers to cases where a new population originates from a few founder individuals, coming from a bigger ancestral population, that established in a new environment. This small population might or might not be genetically representative of the original one. This subgroup carries with them some genetic information that they share with their original population. Over time, some genes can be lost, or they can increase in frequency. Some rare alleles might be exceeded or might be completely lost. On Consequence, when the small population grows, it will have a genetically different composition from the original one. In these situations, genetic variability is reduced and enhances the possibility of developing a peculiar allelic composition. In some cases, the founder effect is part of the process of speciation.
The criteria for maintaining a Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium are:
- Random matings
- No superposed generations
- No mutations
- No migration
- Infinite population size
- No natural selection
Genetic drift involved the un-accomplishment of random matings and infinite population sizes.
Genetic drift involves:
- limited population sizes
- individuals reproduce by endogamy/exogamy, and matings occur by phenotype.
Hydrogen bonds between nucleotides
Answer:
(A). Result in different amino acids to be read due to frame shifts
Explanation:
Insertion or deletion mutations (or Indel mutations) can be defined as mutations in DNA due to insertion (addition) or deletion of nucleotide bases in DNA.
These mutations lead to change in reading frames (sequence of codons), which leads to formation of protein having completely different amino acid sequence. Hence, these mutations are also cause frameshift mutations.
This is due due to triplet nature of genetic codes as insertion or deletion of one or more bases (but not three) would change change in codon sequence and mutated sequence can form a non-functional or truncated protein.
Thus, the correct answer is option (A).
Answer:
No, not all genetic change is adaptive.
Explanation:
This is because genetic changes happen in many ways and this can be adaptive or not.
The main form of genetic change happens through genetic mutations, and these mutations are not always adaptive.
One might think, for example, of a river polluted with a chemical reagent that causes mutations in the scale genes of the local fish population, mildly damaging the way they swim. Despite being a nonadaptive genetic change of fish, they have continued to reproduce so that this change is part of their population.
Although this happens, it is important to note that this rarely happens. Since natural selection ends up selecting the most suitable in the long run.
It depends on your teacher, it should be A. It could be B if that’s what your teacher wants but I would go with A.
