Chapter 20-24B Homework Questions

1. What is meant by a population in the biological sense.

2. What is the difference between a population and a species?

3. What is the Hard-Weinberg equilibrium?

4. What are the required conditions for a Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium to occur?

5. What produces variation within a population?

6. What is genetic drift? the bottleneck effect? the founder effect? gene flow?

7. What is polymorphism?

8. What are directional, disruptive and stabilizing selection and how are they distinguished from one another?

9. What is evolutionary fitness?

10. What factors preserve genetic variation?

11. What is sexual selection?