Llanes, Nicole Angelica N.

BIO1211 – SEC 2
2018051101 Formative Assessment 10

CLINES

Geographic Variation for Flowering Time in a Species of Wheat

1. What is the reason why the researchers grow the plants in a common setting (the
greenhouses) instead of growing each accession in its native environment? (3 pts)

The researchers grew the plants in a common greenhouse to control and mimic the environment
the plants are normally exposed to. Growing them in their natural environment would be time
consuming and the environmental factors would be more difficult to control.

2. What is the predominant flowering phenotype from accessions that come from near the
southern edge of the Caspian Sea? (2 pts)
According to the figure, intermediate flowering is the predominant flowering phenotype from
the southern edge of the Caspian Sea.

3. What is the geographic range and the phenotype of accessions of the HG17 lineage? (2
pts)
The phenotype of the HG17 lineage is late-flowering. The geographical range has a longitude
in between of 40° and 50° East, and a latitude >40° North on the Transcaucasus-Middle East
area.

4. At the time of the Last Glacial Maximum (the time period when the continental ice sheets
reached their maximum total mass during the last ice age), much of northern Asia was in
the temperate desert vegetation zone. Is late-flowering common or rare in the plants that
currently live south of this zone? (2 pts)

Based on the figure provided, late flowering is rare in the south of the temperate desert
vegetation zone.

5. Based on this map, is it a latitudinal or longitudinal cline? Why? (3 pts)

Based on the figure, the cline is latitudinal.

6. Is the HG16 lineage more common in the east or in the west? Why? (3 pts)
The HG16 lineage is more common in the east, in the Asian area.