Question
Genetic load is calculated by finding the difference between this quantity’s average and reference genotypic values. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this quantity, often denoted w, that measures an individual organism’s ability to survive and reproduce.
ANSWER: Darwinian fitness
[10m] According to this man’s fundamental theorem, the rate at which a population’s mean fitness increases is proportional to the additive genetic variation for fitness. He also names a mechanism used to explain how sexual selection leads to the evolution of costly male ornamentation.
ANSWER: Ronald Fisher [or Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher or R. A. Fisher; accept Fisher’s fundamental theorem of natural selection; accept Fisherian runaway]
[10h] This equation, which reduces to Fisher’s fundamental theorem when fitness equals the trait of interest, finds the covariance between a trait and its fitness, allowing one to describe how trait frequencies change over time.
ANSWER: Price equation [or Price’s equation or Price’s theorem]
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