Genetics Vocab

5. This makes light and air into food
6. This variable is a recessive allele in a population
9. Where a extreme phenotype is favored over other phenotypes, causing the allele frequency to shift over time in the direction of that phenotype.
10. You wouldn't go swimming in this. This is the total genetic info in a population
12. The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
13. Exchange of genetic material between chromosomes

1. (Diversifying selection) describes changes in population genetics in which extreme values for a trait are favored over intermediate values.
2. Favors the intermediate phenotype
3. The breeding of plants and animals (by humans) to produce desirable traits.
4. This variable represents the frequency of hetero-zygotes in a population
7. Location on a chromosome
8. This is only passed from mother to child in humans
11. A sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events