Questions pertaining to populations of organisms.
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Difference between biological control and introducing species for conservation?
I have a biology assignment and we have to explain various methods and strategies for conservation, two of which are:
Biological control
Introduced Species
What is the difference between ...
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What is the minimum population size that Hardy-Weinberg calculations can be applied to?
I'm trying to find out if a particular allele is in Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium, but the data is poor. What's the minimum population number that you can use to get any sort of respectable ...
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What is the inbreeding coefficient for the female offspring of a sib-mating in a haplodiploid system?
The inbreeding coefficient of a sibling mating for a diploid organism is 0.25 (each allele has a 25% of being identical by descent in the offspring).
In haplodiploid organisms, males result from ...
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Vaccination and population dynamics of an epidemic
I'm trying to figure out how should a vaccination model be built to correlate with population density, and I'm having problems to understand meanings of the results I receive when I apply theory on ...
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Does finite rate of increase depend on mortality of individuals in a population?
As written in my lecture handouts, there two main factors in the Geometric Growth Model of populations:
$R_{0}$ is the expected lifetime reproductive output. This way, for unicellulars, for example, ...
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What's in a Name: Statistical Genetics
The novice often performs population calculations using
what is referred to as Mendelian Genetics. Soon after the
publication of Mendel's results; Hardy and Weinberg presented
their results after the ...
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How does population stability evolve?
The number of individuals constituting a population is called population size. Over time population size does not remain constant, it fluctuates to different extent over generations because of ...
