Biological Science Practice SET

1. Evolutionary homology is similarity due to common ancestry. Which of the following characters are evolutionary homologies? a) wing of a bird and a bat b) beak of a vulture and an eagle c) fin of a fish and a whale d) webbed feet of a duck and a frog 2. Locus A in a diploid organism has two alleles A 1 and A 2 , where A1 is dominant over A 2 . Additionally A 2 is deleterious in the homozygous condition. Allele A 2 takes a long time to get eliminated from the population because a) A 1 is harbored in the heterozygotes b) A 1 is harbored in the homozygotes c) A 2 is harbored in the heterozygotes d) A 2 is harbored in the homozygotes 3. In a population of 100 diploid individuals, the frequency of neutral alleles A 1 and A 2 are 0.4 and 0.6 respectively. Assuming Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and no change in population size, the frequency of heterozygotes after five generations is: a) 0.36 ...