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sexual selection

selection for traits that improve mating success

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intrasexual selection

  • selection within a sex

  • male competition for the right to mate with a female

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intersexual selection

  • mate choice

  • females choose the male they want to mate with

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sexual dimorphism

  • difference in appearance of males and females

  • males look better so females will mate with them

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quantitative character

characters that vary along a continuum

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discrete character

  • come in 2 forms

  • not helpful for natural selection

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mutation

  • random changes in dna

  • affect mostly populations with with short generational spans (ex. bacteria)

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sexual recombination

sex shuffles alleles and deals them at random to offspring

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diploidy

  • two copies of each gene, one inherited from each parent (AA, Aa, aa)

  • hides genetic variation in the form of recessive alleles that can skip a generation

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heterozygotes

one recessive and one dominant gene (Aa)

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balanced polymorphism

  • gives heterozygotes an advantage

  • how natural selection maintains diversity

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