What Is The Relationship Between Speciation And Adaptive Radiation
Adaptive radiation refers to the rapid evolution of various different species from a common parent species. It leads to speciation.... View Article
Adaptive radiation refers to the rapid evolution of various different species from a common parent species. It leads to speciation.... View Article
Yes, the most common type of colour blindness is a sex linked hereditary disorder. It is a X-linked recessive disorder.... View Article
Colour blindness is X-linked recessive disorder. Females can be colour blind but for that they have to inherit both the... View Article
Bottlenecks are caused when a catastrophic event drastically reduces the population size. It reduces the genetic diversity in a population... View Article
Jacob’s Syndrome is a genetic condition with an extra Y chromosome. It is a rare disease, which affects 1 in... View Article
The genetic code is degenerate, i.e. one amino acid is coded by more than one codon. Francis Crick proposed the... View Article
Genetic variation is the main driving force of natural selection and evolution. Genetic variations help the population survive in the... View Article
Yes, genetic code is continuous and non-overlapping. Genetic code is the trinucleotide sequence present on the mRNA transcript, which codes... View Article
Heterozygosity refers to the frequency of heterozygous genotypes in a population. High heterozygosity is an indication of more genetic variation.... View Article
Genetic variations existing in a population is studied under population genetics. ‘K’ is an important parameter, which refers to the... View Article
Hardy Weinberg equation can be used to calculate allele frequencies and genotype frequencies in a population and analyse any changes... View Article
The Hardy Weinberg equation is used to calculate the genetic variation in a population, which is in equilibrium. We can... View Article
Gene frequency is also called allele frequency. It is the ratio of an allele or gene variant present in the... View Article
Genes are the basic units of heredity, which are expressed as a functional product and are responsible for the specific... View Article
Codon is a trinucleotide sequence present on the mRNA template, which codes for a specific amino acid at the time... View Article
DNA was discovered by Fredrich Mischer in 1869. He observed it in the nuclei of human WBCs and named it... View Article
Lac repressor is a DNA binding protein, which is coded by the gene ‘i’ in the lac operon. It binds... View Article
The human genome consists of 3.16 billion base pairs. DNA is present in the nuclei of cells. If we simply... View Article
The four components of natural selection are: Variation Inheritance High rate of population growth Differential survival and reproduction Further reading:... View Article
A typical animal cell will have the following organelles: Nucleolus Nucleus Ribosome Endoplasmic reticulum Golgi apparatus Cytoskeleton Mitochondria Lysosome Read... View Article