In What Way Is Exogamy Adaptive

question 10

Multiple Choice

In what way is exogamy adaptive?

• A)It increases the number of individuals that one can rely on in times of need.
• B)It increases the likelihood that disadvantageous alleles will find phenotypic expression and thus be eliminated from the population.
• C)It impedes peaceful relations among social groups and therefore promotes population expansion.
• D)It was an important causal factor in the origin of the state.
• E)It reduces the gene pool of a community.

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Definitions:

Histone

Type of protein that associates with DNA and structurally organizes eukaryotic chromosomes.

Nucleosome

Unit of chromosomal organization: a length of DNA wound twice around histone proteins.

Histone Proteins

Proteins that package and order DNA into structural units called nucleosomes, playing a role in gene regulation.

Somatic Cell

A cell in a living being that is not involved in reproduction.