CH 23 HWE Exam UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

CH 23 HWE Exam UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Modern synthesis - CORRECT ANSWER our current understanding of evolution



population genetics - CORRECT ANSWER subdiscipline of evolutionary genetics
involved with the study of processes that change the allele and genotype frequencies in a
population



molecular evolution - CORRECT ANSWER a change in allele frequencies in a
population over time



Godfrey Harold Hardy - CORRECT ANSWER British mathematician



Wilhem Weinberg - CORRECT ANSWER German physician, Formulated the H-W
theorem



Hardy Weinberg Law - CORRECT ANSWER mathematical model used to predict
allele and genotype frequencies in an ideal population where no evolution is happening. "null
hypothesis"



locus - CORRECT ANSWER the position on a chromosome where a gene is located,
often synonymous for the word "gene"



Allele - CORRECT ANSWER Each individual has two copies of each chromosome
and hence each gene. one from the mother and one from the father.



Allele - CORRECT ANSWER Different versions of a gene



homozygous - CORRECT ANSWER individual has 2 copies of the same allele