Genetic Drift and Speciation Quiz

Which of the following is an example of the founder effect?

• Humans choose two dogs they like the characteristics of and breed them together.

• Affected individuals with blue skin can trace their ancestry back to one of the first settlers in the region.

• The environment of a fox population changes and over time foxes who are white survive and pass on their genes to their offspring.

• Cheetah populations reach their lowest levels with reduced diversity and as they rebound are so genetically similar they appear to be inbred.

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Genetic drift is change in the allele frequency of a population due to...

• random chance

• natural selection

• non-random mating (sexual selection)

• artificial selection

 Genetic Drift is more likely to happen in... 

• aquatic populations
• small populations
• terrestrial populations
• older populations

A virus killed most of the seals in the North Sea (e.g. dropped the population from 8000 to 800).  In an effort to help preserve the species, scientists caught 20 of the remaining seals and used them to start a new population in the northwest Pacific Ocean.  Which of the following statements would accurately describe the new   population?  

• The new seal population is genetically less diverse than the original population 
• The new seal population is genetically more diverse than the original population
• There is equal genetic variety compared  to the original population 
• None of the answers

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Which of the following is an example of the bottle neck effect?

• Bald Eagles are hunted until near extinction, population recovers.
• Small group of iguanas floats to an island, starts a new population.
• Red fox pups are more likely to survive in a snowy environment if they are born white.
• Farmer chooses seeds from largest apples to plant next year.  This results in larger apples from year to year.

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Which of the following is an example of natural selection?

• Bald Eagles are hunted until near extinction, population recovers.

• Small group of iguanas floats to an island, starts a new population.

• Red fox pups are more likely to survive in a snowy environment if they are born white.

• Farmer chooses seeds from largest apples to plant next year. This results in larger apples from year to year.

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A change in the genetic composition of a population as a result of descending from a small number of colonizing individuals is called:

• founder effect
• bottleneck
• genetic drift
• gene flow

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Natural selection states that organisms are best suited for their environment if they ____________ and ____________.

• Survive and Reproduce
• Survive and Predate
• Survive and Parasitize
• Survive and Adapt

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A flash flood carried a raft of Amazon ants away from their original population. There is enough distance between the two groups, that they will never meet in nature again. What type of reproductive barrier is this?

• behavioral isolation
• temporal isolation 
• gametic isolation
• geographic isolation 

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The genitalia of the male damselfly varies in shape. Certain males can only hold onto & mate with females whose genitalia fit.  What type of reproductive barrier is this?

• behavioral isolation
• temporal isolation 
• gametic isolation
• mechanical isolation 

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