Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Molecular Evolution

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Question
Answer
Three questons of molecular evolution   DNA/amino acid evolution; frequencies of neutral, deleterious, and adaptive mutations; evidence of natural selection from sequence data  
🗑
Three steps to fixation of a gene   new mutation, polymorphism, fixation  
🗑
no change in fitness of a mutation   neutral  
🗑
decreasing fitness, or negatively selected   deleterious  
🗑
increasing fitness, or positively selected   beneficial  
🗑
an allele in generation "t" is randomly chosen to become the parental copy of an allele in the next generation   Wright-Fisher model of reproduction  
🗑
in a populaton with N = 5 and no mutation, each generation of allele is subject to extinction in the population   genetic drift caused a randomly chosen allele in the first generation to be eventually fixed in the population later on  
🗑
what acts on a population in the absence of mutation?   genetic drift  
🗑
give the equation for the rate of mutation that go to fixation over "t" generations   k = 2Nup(fix)t2Nu=new mutationp(fix)=each mutation is fixed at this rate2Nup(fix)=number of mutations that go to fixaion per generation  
🗑
If 2Nu=10-3, p(fix)=10-5, k=10-2, What is the probability that this site undergoes a substitution in 10^6 generations? What is the expected number of substitutions on a 10-kb long sequence?   0.01, solve for t-10^6, an k=10-2.....10-kb=10^4, so 10^4*0.01=100  
🗑
In a population with infinite size, a new neutral mutation can reach fixation by genetic drift.T/F   False. In any population with finite size (N), a new neutral mutation can reach fixation by genetic drift.  
🗑
Can a neutral mutation reach fixation by genetic drift?   Yes, in a finite population  
🗑
Equation for fixation probability of a neutral mutation   1/(2N)  
🗑
equation for the number of substitutions over "t" generation   k = 2Nu(1/(2N))t = ut  
🗑
if all mutations are neutral, then the substitution rate per generation (k/t) is....   the mutation rate  
🗑
substitution of a neutral mutation will cause the substitution rate per generation to be...   the mutation rate  
🗑
probability of fixation is high if the mutation is ...   positively selected  
🗑
if mutations are (beneficial/deleterious), DNA sequences evolve much (slower/faster) than it would evolve under genetic drift   beneficial; faster  
🗑
beneficial mutations cause the substitution rate to be...   higher  
🗑
causes divergence between two sequences from two species   base substitutions  
🗑
give the equation for the expected divergenc if all mutations are neutral   expected divergence = D = L*u*2tL=sequence lengthu=mutation rate per bp2t=divergence time  
🗑
12 codons = __ amino acids   12 aa, 36bp  
🗑
if a protein-coding sequenc has 12 codons, and 75% of mutations are nonsynonymous, the how many nonsynonymous and synonymous sites are there?   12 codons = 36 bp36*.75=27 non synonymous36*.25=9 synonymous sites  
🗑
mutations that no dot change amino acid sequence   neutral mutations  
🗑
a mutation that is a functional change but no fitness change would be considered a _________ mutation   neutral  
🗑
a mutation that is little or none functional cange, change to an amino acid with similar propert, and change at functionally unimportant part of the protein is called   neutral mutation  
🗑
a mutation that is a functional chage and change in fitness is (2)   deleterious and advantageous  
🗑
how can you relate deleterious and advantageous and neutral mutatons?   they all add up to 1f0(neutral) + f1(del) + f2(advantageous) = 1  
🗑
name the polar, changed amino acids that are basic   arginine, histidine, and lysine  
🗑
what type of amino acid has electrically charged side chains that attract wate and oppositey charged ions   polar, charged  
🗑
name the polar, charged amino acids that are acidic   aspartic acid, glutamic acid  
🗑
name the polar, uncharged amino acids   serince threonine, asparagine, glutamine, and tyrosine  
🗑
what type of amino acid is uncharged with polar side chains that tend to form weak hydrogen bonds with water and with other polar or charged substances; mostly hydrophilic   polar, uncharged  
🗑
name the three amino acids with special cases   glycine, proline, cysteine  
🗑
name the non-polar amino acids   alanine, phenylalanine, leucine, isoleucine, mehionine, tryptophan, and valine  
🗑
in an ideal gene, if all mutations were neutral, non-synonymous sites would still be greater than synonymous sites. T/F   False. they would be equal and diverge at the same rate  
🗑
what happens in a population with only neutral and deleterious mutations, no beneficial   nonsynonymous sites: Dn=Ln*f0*u*2t=Dn/Ln=2f0utsynonymous sites: Dc=2Lsut, ds=Ds/Ls=2utdn/ds=f0<1  
🗑
if there are no beneficial mutations, then divergence at synonymous sites are __________; synonymous substitutions are determined by ____________; synonymous mutations are __________   similar; divergence time; neutral  
🗑
if there is no beneficial mutations, then proteins constrained evolve slowly and nonsynonymous mutations are >>>>   deleterious  
🗑
proteins with relaxed constraint grow   fast (insulin C)  
🗑
if all types of mutatons occur in a population, then who goes to fixation?   neutral and beneficial  
🗑
if f2>0, dn/ds is   eithr <1 or>1  
🗑
if dn/ds>0 and f2>0   positive selection  
🗑
what type of mutaton causes an amino acid change   nonsynonymous  
🗑
what type of mutation causes no amino acid change   synonymous  
🗑
there are two ways to get neutral mutations, what are they?   synonymous mutation (no aa change) and nonsynonymous mutation (aa change) and fixation to genetic drift  
🗑
fixation due to genetic drift is a _______ mutation   neutral  
🗑
no fixation from this mutation   deleterious  
🗑
fixation due to positive selection   benefical mutation  
🗑
three types of nonsynonymous mutations   neutral, deleterious, beneficial  
🗑
symbol for neutral mutation   fo  
🗑
symbol for deleterious mutation   f1  
🗑
symbol for beneficial mutation   f2  
🗑
how do you determine if there is evidence for positive selection?   dn/ds>1, f2>0  
🗑
two animals with a modified foregut   ruminants, colobine monkey  
🗑
number value on phylogenic tree branches is equal to   dn/ds  
🗑
the number of nonsynonymous substitutions are found by multiplying what by what?   no. of fixed neutral mutations by no. fixed advantageous mutations  
🗑
examination of within population variation gives what?   f0 via polymorphism  
🗑
how to determine the number of polymorphic sites?   equals the number of mutation events on geneaology  
🗑
Equation for expected number of polymorphic sites   P = L*u*TT=sum of branch lengthsL=lenght of DNA sequenceu=neutral mutation rate  
🗑
describe how to get the expected number of polymorphic sites   =length of DNA sequence x neutral mutation rate x total branch length  
🗑
why can ony neutral mutations be considered in genealogy?   deleterious mutations are quickly removed by selection, cannot be included in sample sequences; advantageous mutations quickly go to fixation and cannot contribute to polymorphism  
🗑
how to tell between synonymous and nonsynonymous sites?   synonymous sites: P=L*u*Tnonsynonymouse sites: P=L*f0*u*T  
🗑
if f2=0, then   no advantageous mutation  
🗑
if f2>0, dn/ds>pn/ps, then   evidence of positive selection  
🗑
how to test the significance between Dn/Ds and Pn/Ps?   chi-square  
🗑
what is the mcdonald-kreitman test?   statistical test to determine adaptation, etc  
🗑
examination of within population variation gives what?   f0 via polymorphism  
🗑
how to determine the number of polymorphic sites?   equals the number of mutation events on geneaology  
🗑
Equation for expected number of polymorphic sites   P = L*u*TT=sum of branch lengthsL=lenght of DNA sequenceu=neutral mutation rate  
🗑
describe how to get the expected number of polymorphic sites   =length of DNA sequence x neutral mutation rate x total branch length  
🗑
why can ony neutral mutations be considered in genealogy?   deleterious mutations are quickly removed by selection, cannot be included in sample sequences; advantageous mutations quickly go to fixation and cannot contribute to polymorphism  
🗑
how to tell between synonymous and nonsynonymous sites?   synonymous sites: P=L*u*Tnonsynonymouse sites: P=L*f0*u*T  
🗑
if f2=0, then   no advantageous mutation  
🗑
if f2>0, dn/ds>pn/ps, then   evidence of positive selection  
🗑
how to test the significance between Dn/Ds and Pn/Ps?   chi-square  
🗑
what is the mcdonald-kreitman test?   statistical test to determine adaptation, etc  
🗑
what is the most correct explanation of wy more antibiotics become ineffective in the treatment of bacterial infection   mutations on bacterial genes that cause bacteria's resistance to drug become positively selected  
🗑
what is an example of something that does not suppoert the hypothesis that teosinte is the proginator of maize?   more sequence polymorphism is observed in the maize population than teosite population  
🗑
describe selective sweep caused by a recent positive selection   immediately after the fixation of an advantageous mutation, the amount of genetic variation around the mutation is greatly reduced  
🗑
human like species in the past that are sister group of chimpanzees   hominin  
🗑
modern human evolution   increased brain volume, early hominins found in africa  
🗑
order of three modern humans   homo erectus (1.6 mya) archaic homo sapiens (300 kya in africa and asia and europe) aka neanderthals; modern sapiens about 170 kya in africa, anatomically indistinguisable from today's humans  
🗑
two hypothesis from origin of modern human   multiregional hypothesis + replacement hypothesis  
🗑
single wave of expansion by homo erectus, and continuity of descent to the present day   multiregional hypothesis  
🗑
asian and european populations of archais sapiens became extinct when modern sapiens expanded out of africa   replacement (out of africa) hypothesis  
🗑
mitochondrial eve   supports out of affrica hypothesis, based on phylogeny of 53 individuals  
🗑
there was only one woman at that time who became the ultimate ancestor of all humans   misunderstanding of mitochondrial eve  
🗑
the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of mitochondrial DNAs of all humans was carried by a woman who is estimated to have existed about 140,000 years ago   mitochondrial eve  
🗑
two reasons mitochondrial eve is misunderstood   genealogy for a given segment of DNA has to have one MRCA even though there were always a large number of individuals in the population (genetic drift); genealogies (phylogenies) for different loci are different: because of RECOMBINATION  
🗑
one interpretation of mitochondrial eve is wrong because of recombination. explain   gene lineages for different loci are independent with each other  
🗑
genetic variation in humans   DNA sequences from two randomly chosen human individuals are different from each other at 0.1% of nucleotide sites - lower than other mammalian species  
🗑
two reasons for low genetic variation   human population expanded only recently from small ancestral population (170,000 years ago), not all individuals contribute to reproduction equally (true for many other organisms)  
🗑
reasons for low genetic variation include reasons for   effective population sizes, census size  
🗑
give reasons for the genetic evidence for rapid spread of Mongolian male line   Y chromosome sequences from about 2000 men from major regions of Eurasia; highly polymorphic sequences; consistent with Genghis Khan; colonization-extinction events greatly reduce effective population size; similar Y sequence from one male 1000 years ago  
🗑
colonization-extinction events greatly (increase/decrease) population size ang genetic diversity of population   decrease  
🗑
if there are few differences among different geographic populations in nuclear genes, what is different?   allele frequencies are different between populations  
🗑
is there recent divergence and continuation migration between populations? what does this lead to?   yes, and it leads to genetic variation  
🗑
is it rare or common to have nucleotide sites that are polymorphic with G and T nucleotides   yes, rare, common that polymorphism is between G and T  
🗑
if multiple genes contribute to skin pigmentation and there is normal polymorphism in africans, what is represented in low polymorphism with europeans?   selective sweeps with low polymorphism in europeans  
🗑
what is the 'hitchhiking' effect of beneficial mutations or 'selective sweep'   sudden disappearance of polymorphism  
🗑
when is selective sweep easily observed   immediately after the fixation of a beneficial mutation, when local polymorphism just been wiped out  
🗑
if new neutral mutations build up polymorphism and erase the signature of the sweep then,   the fixation happened in a not-so-recent past  
🗑
positive selection to reduce the risk of malaria   G6PD  
🗑
ectodysplasin pathway in development of hair glands, an amino acid substitution causing less hairs on skin rapdily went to fixation in asian populations   EDAR gene  
🗑
a gene showing a strong pattern of selective sweep   lactase gene (LPH)  
🗑
mutualism between a human population and a target plant and animal population   domestication  
🗑
seperate selective sweeps in European and African populations, cis-regulatory mutations that were positively selected   Lactase (LPH) gene  
🗑
normal function of this gene needed for speech   FOXP2  
🗑
significant of selective sweep, but weaker signal of selective sweep   FOXP2  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: KarinWi
Popular Science sets