TRUE (T) OR FALSE (F). CIRCLE THE CORRECT ANSWER
1. RECONSTRUCTING THE LAST UNIVERSAL COMMON ANCESTOR (LUCA) IS CHALLENGING
BECAUSE HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN COMMON AMONG
EARLY LIFE FORMS.
2. RARE ALLELES HAVE A HIGHER PROBABILITY OF BEING LOST DURING A POPULATION
BOTTLENECK EVENT
3. NATURAL SELECTION CAN CAUSE EITHER AN INCREASE OR À DECREASE IN POPULATION
MEAN FITNESS.
4. SELF-REPLICATING PROTEINS ARE THE MOST LIKELY CANDIDATE FOR THE FIRST INFORMATION
BEARING MOLECULE IN LIVING SYSTEMS.
5. SELECTION ACTS ON THE GENOTYPE NOT THE PHENOTYPE
6. HOMOLOGY IS SIMILARITY IN TRAITS DUE TO SHARED INHERITANCE FROM A COMMON
ANCESTOR.
7. ARISTOTLE WAS THE FIRST SCIENTIST TO ARTICULATE A THEORY OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE.
& UNDER DIRECTIONAL SFLECTION, THF RATE OF FVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IN GENF
FREQUENCIES OCCURS MOST RAPIDLY WHEN HETEROZYGOSITY IS HIGHEST.​