Individual Work

Valentina Narvaez

 Copy the two graphs in a word document and answer the following questions: 

Orange Table
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Gen 0 Gen 1 Gen 2 Gen 3 Gen 4 Gen 5 Gen 6 Gen 7 Gen 8 Gen 9 Gen
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Blue Table
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Gen 0 Gen 1 Gen 2 Gen 3 Gen 4 Gen 5 Gen 6 Gen 7 Gen 8 Gen 9 Gen 10

AA AB BB Sum

1. What happens to the frequency of a allele over 10 generations? 

 Allele a disappears, but remains a little. From the graph, we can see that even in the 10th
generation, the allele does not disappear completely. Allele A also becomes more dominant, but
it never reaches 1 percent.
2. What happens to the frequency of A allele over 10 generations? 
The allele becomes stronger and more dominant for coat color in mice, while the a allele
decreases. At first it weakens, but as the generations progress AA and Aa become the strongest
frequencies until they become the only frequencies and aa fades away.
3. Why do your observations from 1 and 2 happen? 
The most common causes of extinction of certain alleles over others are genetic drift, natural
selection, migration and mutations. Genetic drift is the gradual loss of alleles over time as a
result of random events that cause random changes in allele frequency. On the other hand, if an
allele causes a disadvantage in terms of survival or reproduction, natural selection will remove it
from the population. On the other hand, if an allele is beneficial, it is more likely to survive and
spread. During migration, individuals move between populations, adding new alleles or reducing
the frequency of pre-existing alleles.
Finally, mutations can destroy existing alleles if they occur in the same location as the new ones.
A preexisting allele may be lost if a deleterious mutation occurs frequently. Certain alleles can
override other alleles through gene expression, or the expression of genes controlling a certain
trait can change depending on the situation and gene interaction, which is the interaction
between genes controlling different traits. Environmental variables such as temperature, light
and diet can also affect the expression of traits. Finally, natural selection can enhance one trait
and eradicate another.
4. What is the effect on the mice coat color phenotypes over time? 
Only mice with the dominant "AA" genotype exist when the aa allele is completely lost in a
population of mice and replaced by the AA allele. This means that a dominant coat color
phenotype, often distinct from a recessive phenotype, is present in all mice in a population.
Depending on the AA-coded color, the coat color of the mice is different. Although it is a
recessive allele, the fact that there are also Aa expressions does not change the fact that the
dominant color A is still visible. Predict what might happen if some of the aa genotype were able
to breed
All their offspring would have the recessive genotype aa. This is because the A allele is not dominant to
the AA genotype, resulting in only a recessive trait. This can eventually lead to a decrease in the
frequency of the dominant "A" allele in the population, perhaps even to the point of complete
disappearance. As a result, there may be more mice with the recessive trait in the population.