It will be half
A normal cell contains 46 chromosomes.
Gametes only contain 23 because they will be paired with an opposite gamete cell upon fertilisation
- Egg contains 23
- Sperm contains 23
Together they make the normal amount of 46
Answer:
C. Only one allele appears for that gene in that population.
Explanation:
This totally explains what happens during gene fixation because when it happens in a small population, it tends to make one of its allele to appear for the said gene.
Furthermore, fixation can be explained as the change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular allele to a situation where only one of the alleles is left. In the absence of mutation, any allele must eventually be fixed or lost completely from the population. Whether a gene will ultimately be lost or fixed is dependent on selection coefficients and chance fluctuations in allelic proportions.
<span>Darwin essentially argued that living things are engaged in a 'struggle for existence' and that any features they possess which affect their survival and reproductive potential will be subjected to continuous selective pressure. This might be seen as his 'new big idea' in the whole evolution thing. This means that through time those features which confer an advantage in the struggle for life will be retained and those that constitute a handicap will be lost. Not for individuals but for the race. So the composition of the population (or species) changes through time, eventually producing such widely divergent forms that cannot interbreed, and are so called separate species. That is a brief outline of the theory.</span>
