Statistics Are Used as a Basis for Making Decisions

question 14

True/False

Statistics are used as a basis for making decisions.

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Definitions:

Directional Selection

is a type of natural selection that favors one extreme phenotype over others, causing a shift in allele frequency over time.

Genetic Drift

A mechanism of evolution that results in random changes in the frequency of alleles within a population over time.

Allele Frequencies

The proportion of different alleles of the same gene within a given population.

Cladistics

Making hypotheses about evolutionary relationships among clades.