Mechanisms of Evolution, Speciation, and Resistance

During a hurricane, a population of beetles almost gets completely wiped out. The only beetles that survived were lucky that they were in their nest at the time of the hurricane and had enough food to survive.

• Natural selection

• Genetic Drift

• Gene Flow

• Non-Random Mating

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Insects become resistant to pesticides very quickly, sometime in one generation. If an insect is resistant to the chemical, most of the offspring will also be resistant. Considering that insect generations can be a matter of weeks, insects in an area can become immune to a chemical within months.

• Mutation

• Natural Selection

• Genetic Drift

• Gene Flow

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A certain type of plant can produce blue or yellow flowers. During a fire, many yellow flowers are destroyed and now since blue is the dominant trait, the plant reproduces offspring that produce only blue flowers.

• Non-Random Mating

• Gene Flow

• Mutation

• Genetic Drift

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This is one of the mechanisms of evolution; it is a continuous process in which organisms with traits that make them better-adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than organisms without such adaptations

• Directional selection

• Microevolution

• Gene flow / genetic drift

• Natural selection

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This is the process that ultimately creates new variations and changes in DNA; leads to the creation of new alleles

• Mutation

• Microevolution

• Natural selection

• Gene flow / genetic drift

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This makes an organism more suited to its environment

• species

• lifespan

• adaptation

• mutation

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A drastic reduction in the size of a population that can change allele frequencies is called

• the bottleneck effect

• the founder effect

• the gene flow effect

• the Thanos effect

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Match the following

• Change in DNA sequence

• Founders Effect

• Starting a new population

• Mutation

• Increases genetic variation

• Gene Flow

• Usually decreases genetic variation

• Bottle Neck

• Population gets smaller (Natural Disaster)

• Genetic Drift

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Genetic drift is driven by chance, not natural selection

• true

• false

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Select the best answer based on the image.

• Gene Flow

• Genetic Drift