Genomics and Evolutionary Biology Quiz

Charles Darwin proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection.

The fundamental unit of heredity is the gene.

Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA.

Gene flow is the movement of alleles from one population to another.

Adaptation is the phenomenon where an organism exhibits traits that enhance its survival and reproductive success.

Chromosomal inversion is not a type of point mutation.

Stabilizing selection favors individuals with intermediate phenotypes in natural selection.

Recombination is the process of cutting and recombining DNA segments to produce new allele combinations.

Stephen Jay Gould proposed the idea of punctuated equilibrium in evolution.

Speciation is the evolutionary process involving the formation of new species.

The Mitochondrial DNA clock is widely used to estimate the time of divergence between species.

The Hardy-Weinberg principle describes the equilibrium of allele frequencies in a population.

Sympatric speciation is the process by which a new species evolves from a single ancestral species in the same geographic region.

MicroRNA (miRNA) is a type of non-coding RNA involved in gene regulation.

Motoo Kimura proposed the 'neutral theory of molecular evolution', suggesting that most evolutionary changes at the molecular level are driven by random genetic drift.