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1) The Smallest Unit of Evolution
•One misconception is that organismsevolve, in the Darwinian sense, during their lifetimes•Natural selection acts on individuals, butonly populations evolve•Genetic variations in populations contributeto evolution•
Microevolution
is a change in allelefrequencies in a population over generations
2) Population genetics provides afoundation for studying evolution
•Microevolution is change in the geneticmakeup of a population from generation togeneration
3) Mutation and sexual reproduction produce the
genetic variation
that makes evolution possible
•
Mutation
and
sexual reproduction
,produce the variation in gene pools thatcontributes to differences amongindividuals•Variation in individual
genotype
leads tovariation in individual
phenotype
•Not all phenotypic variation is heritable•Natural selection can only act on variationwith a genetic component
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