AP BIOLOGY

EVOLUTION

EVOLUTION OF A POPULATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The numbers of times an allele occurs in a gene pool, compared to the number of times other alleles for the same gene occur, explains which of the following?
A
relative family members
B
relative functions
C
relative fractions
D
relative frequency
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Relative frequency is the number of times an allele occurs in a gene pool compared with the number of times other alleles for the same gene occur.

Detailed explanation-2: -Allele frequency refers to how common an allele is in a population. It is determined by counting how many times the allele appears in the population then dividing by the total number of copies of the gene.

Detailed explanation-3: -Genetic variation is usually expressed as a relative frequency, which means a proportion of the total population under study. In other words, a relative frequency value represents the percentage of a given phenotype, genotype, or allele within a population.

Detailed explanation-4: -The abundance of a single version of the gene in the population as compared to other versions is considered to be the allele frequency. An example of alleles might be the different variants of a gene that determine eye color.

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