I believe the answer you are looking for has to do with cells, they are the basic building block of life and are the smallest life that can support itself.
Answer:
Which type of selection tends to increase genetic variation? A. Disruptive selection B. Directional selection C. Stabilizing selection
The Answer is option A (Disruptive selection)
Explanation:
Selection can either shift the mean value of a trait, reduce the trait's variation, or increase its variation.
Genetic variation which allows natural selection to increase or decrease frequency of alleles already in the population is a source of phenotypic variation as it refers to differences in all the hereditary information of members of the same species.
Disruptive Selection is important in maintaining variation and initiating speciation as it Increases Variation by favoring alleles corresponding to more extreme phenotypes. But for it to occur, the mean phenotype has to experience the lowest fitness. Disruptive selection affects the frequency distributions of alleles and genotypes within a population.
Disruptive selection is based on the variance of a trait in a population as it increases genetic variance by equalizing the frequencies of existing alleles at polymorphic loci (a genetic loci with two or more alleles). Disruptive selection maintains and may even increase variation in natural populations by favoring extreme phenotypes, individuals with extreme values for a trait have greater reproductive success than individuals with intermediate values.
The distinguishing characteristics of the free living members of sarcodina are:
1. These are pseudopods (function in locomotion) which makes it the extentions of protoplasm.
2. These have both a clear ectoplasm and a granualated endoplasm.
3. These have nucleus both food vacuoles and contractile vacuoles.
Answer:
Both starch and cellulose are glucose polymers, but the glycosidic linkages in these two polymers differ, as shown in Figure 5.7. Glucose can have two slightly different ring structures. When glucose forms a ring, the hydroxyl group attached to the number 1 carbon is positioned either below (alpha)or above (beta) the plane of the ring. In starch, all the glucose monomers are in the alpha configuration (Figure 5.7b). In cellulose, all the glucose monomers are in the beta configuration. As a result, every other glucose monomer is "upside down" with respect to its neighbors (Figure 5.7c). The differing glycosidic linkages in starch and cellulose give the two molecules distinct three-dimensional shapes, leading to key functional differences.
Explanation:
