Thursday, February 17, 2011

Blog #3

Explain what microevolution is? What are the three ways that variation occurs?

Microevolution is the change in gene frequency within a population. One way that variation occurs is when crossing over occurs during meiosis. It also occurs when mutation alter the order of bases in the nucleotide DNA. Mutations are rare and most mutations are harmful, but some instances the new allele can be favored by natural selection.

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