12. Applied Evolution

Question 1

Where does resistance come from?

Answer 1

1) pre-existing genetic variation in the population
2) Gene flow
3) New mutations

Question 2

How can herbicide resistance be stopped?

Answer 2

1) multi-herbicide treatment
2) rotation of different herbicides

Question 3

Evolutionary rescue

Answer 3

the evolution of resistance in order to adapt and increase in abundance

Question 4

Suppression gene drives

Answer 4

reduce the size of a population (potentially to extinction)

Question 5

Replacement drives

Answer 5

amined to spread a human beneficial allele throughout a population

Question 6

Single mutations

Answer 6

unlikely to confer resistance to multiple drugs with different mechanisms of action (lower viral loads make multiple mutations less likely)