Answer:
Option B, No
Explanation:
Complete question is as follows -
You have spent time working with a population of beetles. Sexually mature males range in size from 2-6 cm in length. You realize that the females only mate with males that measure less than 3 cm long. If you measured allele frequencies at a single gene (locus) that contributes to overall length, would you expect this population to be in H-W equilibrium from one generation to the next?
Select one:
a. Yes
b. No
Solution -
No, because Hardy Weinberg’s equilibrium theory is not applicable in practical scenario as it assumes that H-W equilibrium persists from one generation to the other only when these is no disturbing factor . These disturbing factors include – natural selection, non-random mating, genetic drift, gene flow and mutations. Since this theory works only in an idealized state where no such disturbances occur, it is very difficult to say that the beetle population can remain in H-W equilibrium. Also the females in the beetle population are selecting the males for mating thereby exhibiting sexual selection. Hence, H-W equilibrium will not be applicable.
Hence, option B
Answer:
B. Food was a limiting factor.
C. As long as Ling keeps adding more food, the guppy population will continue to grow
Explanation:
Limiting factor refers to biotic or abiotic factors that limit or affects the growth of species. In the population of guppies, food was a limiting factor that affects their population growth. Indeed!, it is vivid from the experiment that after Ling increases the amount of food being given to the guppies, there is a significant increase in the population growth.
We can thereby conclude that the following statements that supported these data goes thus;
Food was a limiting factor and as long as Ling keeps adding more food, the guppy population will continue to grow.
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