Multiple Choice
Early on in this chapter,we learned that evolution refers to descent with modification over generations.Geneticists,however,have an even more specific definition of evolution:
A) directional selection of the fittest alleles in a breeding population.
B) a change in gene frequency; that is, in the frequency of alleles in a breeding population from generation to generation.
C) a change in the gene frequency within the DNA of a single individual organism.
D) the survival of the chemically fittest allele in the gene pool.
E) a change in gene frequency caused by either chromosomal rearrangement or recombination.
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