Is Evolution Still On? Public Class

About the Class

This class would discuss the following:

• Common origin of living organisms and recombination as sources of variability, selection acts upon variation, adaptation (Lederberg''s replica plating experiment for indirect select of bacterial mutants)
• Mutation- Their role is speciation. Their origin in speciation, their origin in organisms.
• In relation to Darwin''s concepts of evolution
• Reproductive isolation
• Speciation
• Role of selection change and drift in determining composition of population
• Selected examples: industrial melanism; drug resistance, mimicry, malaria in relation to G-6-PD deficiency and sickle cell disease

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Keywords: aipmt, biology, evolution, medical entrance, bio, mutation, speciation