EvoBeaker:

Genetic Drift and Bottlenecked Ferrets

Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:59 PM

Exercise 1:

[ 6.1 ] Is the frequency of allele S in the field population the same as the frequency of allele S
among ferrets in Breeding Pen 1?
• As you can see, based on the image above, they are not the same. The frequency of alle
S in the field population is .45, while the frequency of the allele S in the breeding pen 1
is .50.
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[ 7.1 ] Record the frequency of allele S in the field and the five breeding pens.

Field Pen1 Pen2 Pen3 Pen4 Pen5

.45 .50 .35 .40 .40 .65

[ 9.1 ] Record the frequency of allele S in the field and the five breeding pens.

Field Pen1 Pen2 Pen3 Pen4 Pen5

.51 1.0 0.0 .97 1.0 1.0

Exercise 2:

[ 5.1 ] How does the frequency of S among zygotes (shown by the green line) compare to the
frequency of S in the gene pool (shown by the gray line)?
• It is below it.

[ 7.1 ] What happens to the allele frequency over time?

• It stays a constant 0.5 .

[ 8.1 ] Sketch the graph of Frequency vs. Number of Zygotes for three runs on the axes below.
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 • It is below it.

[ 7.1 ] What happens to the allele frequency over time?

• It stays a constant 0.5 .

[ 8.1 ] Sketch the graph of Frequency vs. Number of Zygotes for three runs on the axes below.
(Don’t worry about details; just show the gist of what happened in each run.)
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Exercise 3:

[ 3.1 ] Sketch the graph of Frequency vs. Time for three runs with different population sizes on
the axes below. (Don’t worry about precise details; just record the gist of what happened in
each run.)
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[ 4.1 ] In the table below, use tally marks to keep track, for each starting frequency, of the tota
number of populations observed, the number in which S was lost and the number in which S
became fixed.

Initial frequency # of population # with S lost # with S fixed

.50 10 3 1
.50 20 0 4
.50 50 2 2
.50 100 2 2

Exercise 4:

[ 5.2 ] Plot your data from the previous question on the graph below.
50 - .096
100 - .187
150 - .196
200 - .374
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[ 16.3 ] RUN the simulation for at least 150 generations. Use the Effective Population Size slide
to match the green curve to the blue curve. Record the measured effective population size
(Measured Ne) in the fourth column.

Census size Sex ratio predicted measured

50 .80 32 35

Exercise 5:
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