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MASSEY UNIVERSITY
ALBANY CAMPUS
EXAMINATION FOR
196.207 BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
Semester 2 - 2011
TOTAL marks: 90
All answers are to be written in the blue answer book provided.
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Briefly describe how the concepts of evolution and phylogeny have helped
us understand AIDS?
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N = 10
N = 100
N = 1000
N = 10000
N = 100000
N = 1000000
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generations
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[1 mark]
(c) According to Figure B, over what span of years did the population of
beetles have the highest mean fitness?
[1 mark]
(d) Based on the data shown here, what was the least common beetle wing
colour in your favourite population in 1981? Show your working.
[2 marks]
(e) Something pretty dramatic happened to this population between 1970 and
1980. Describe in your own words what happened in terms of the change
in allelic frequencies based on the data above.
[5 marks]
(f) Assuming that the environment of the population stayed constant during the
transition from the 70s to the 80s, hypothesize about what might account
for the dramatic change in allelic frequencies.
[10 marks]
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Describe and discuss the different barriers to gene flow that might give rise
to speciation.
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