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Evolution: second lecture
Adaptation definition,
What are the forces that drive ev...,
What does the hardy weinburg equa...
16  cards
Causes and consequences of diversity
How is diversity maintained,
What do germ line mutations include,
What are synonymous silent mutations
19  cards
Patterns of within species diversity
Polymorphism definition,
Divergence definition,
How is the starting frequency of ...
14  cards
Selection and polymorphism
What does small effective populat...,
What are the effects of bottlenec...,
What do deleterious mutations ten...
8  cards
Divergence and selection
What s the rate of substitution e...,
What does the rate of accumulatio...,
How do you estimate divergence k
12  cards
Population genetic tests for selection
Why are population genetics needed,
What does selective sweep mean,
What happened to the antimalarial...
8  cards
Gene mapping
How to make a mapping cross,
How to genotype a mapping cross,
How to determine where the causat...
10  cards
Finding genes that enable adaptation
Examples of adaptive differentiation,
What is the prediction,
Whats the fst index
14  cards
Testing evolutionary questions with genomics tool
Case study 1 horns on sheep why d...,
What is the actual reason for sho...,
Case study 2 genome sequencing an...
8  cards
Gene expression evolution
Are similar are chimpanzees and h...,
What do distantly related species...,
What are promoters
13  cards
Sex conflict and cooperation
What is sex,
What is meiotic sex,
What are the costs of sex
14  cards
Diversity of sex determination mechanisms
What are some triggers for sex de...,
Who discovered sex chromosomes,
What are the most recent sex chro...
12  cards
Sexual selection
What does isogamy mean,
What are the two strategies for g...,
What is zygote size determined by
16  cards
Lecture 16
How can sexual dimorphisms differ,
Example of sexual dimorphisms,
Whats intra locus conflict
10  cards
Multiple levels of selection
What are the levels of selection,
What is a multicellular organism,
Example of two level selection wi...
12  cards
Coevolution
Coevolution definition,
What does commensailsm mean,
Whats amensalism
18  cards
Lecture 20
What is speciation,
How do you initiate the speciatio...,
Whats allopatric speciation
16  cards
Speciation p2
What does higher taxa refer to,
What is reinforcement,
What is the outcome if hybrids ha...
21  cards
Inferring phylogeny from sequence variation
What are the two types of tree,
What does ultrametric mean,
What are cladograms
16  cards
Phylogeny and Diversity
Definition of phylogentic imbalance,
What is net diversification rate,
How do you measure net diversific...
4  cards
Plagarism in the poaceae, the role of lateral gene transfer in grass evolution
What is lateral gene transfer def...,
Why do we work on grasses,
How many grass species are there
5  cards
Lecture 25
What are the factos that drive di...,
Whats the theory behind how rates...,
Whats the pull of present
5  cards

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