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6. Allele frequencies can be estimated on genotype frequencies, and larger sample sizes give better estimates

  • True
  • False

7. Outbreeding cuases

  • Heterozygote excess
  • Heterozygote deficit

8. Stochastic fluctuations in allele frequencies due to random sampling in a finite population

  • Hardy Weinburg
  • Genetic drift
  • Population

9. Allele frequencies can be estimated based on genotype frequencies, and smaller sample sizes give better estimates

  • False
  • True

10. The basis of population genetic theory was created between _______

  • 1918 and 1934
  • 1818 - 1834

11. In ___________ populations diversity is spread among individuals according to Mendelian law

  • Sexual
  • Asexual

12. Selection causes deviations from the Hardy Weinberg equilibrium

  • True
  • False

13. _________ studies how allele and genotype frequencies vary in time and space, and which factors are causing this variation

  • Population genetics
  • Hardy Weinburg law

14. In an infinitely large population, both allele and genotype frequencies remain constant from generation to generation unless specific factors are introduced, this is _________________

  • Hardy Weinberg law
  • Mendelian law

15. Allele frequencies alone are all that are needed to calculate genotype frequencies

  • True
  • False

16. Population genetics studies what happens when the assumptions of the ___________ law are violated, eg how populations evolve at the genetic level

  • Hardy Weinburg
  • Mendelian
  • Haldane

17. Non random mating, mutation, migration and selection all disrupt the allele and genotype frequencies equilibrium in the

  • Hardy Weinburg law
  • Mendel law

18. ___________ the set of all genes in a population. In a population of N diploid individuals, there are 2N copies of each autosomal gene

  • Family tree
  • Population
  • Gene pool
  • Species

19. In finite populations there will be random changes in allele frequencies due to chance events

  • True
  • False

20. Inbreeding causes

  • Heterzxygote deficit
  • Heterozygote excess