Evidence of Evolution by Natural Selection

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Evidence of Evolution by Natural Selection Testable Hypotheses 2010-2011

Peppered Moths Dark vs. light variants Year % dark % light 1848 5 95 1848 5 95 1895 98 2 1995 19 81

Peppered moth What was the selection factor? B. Kettlewell Peppered moth What was the selection factor? early 1800s = pre-industrial England low pollution lichen growing on trees = light colored bark late 1800s = industrial England factories = soot coated trees killed lichen = dark colored bark mid 1900s = pollution controls clean air laws return of lichen = light colored bark industrial melanism

Evolution in Darwin’s finches now Rosemary and Peter Grant Evolution in Darwin’s finches now Mean beak depth of parents (mm) Medium ground finch 8 9 10 11 1977 1980 1982 1984 Dry year Wet year Beak depth Beak depth of offspring (mm) Prediction: Since dry years produce thicker shelled seeds, then in dry years, larger beaks will be more frequent in the population. Data…

Natural selection in action Insecticide & drug resistance insecticide didn’t kill all individuals resistant survivors reproduce resistance is inherited more of population is resistant insecticide becomes less & less effective Resistance… NOT immunity! Pesticide molecule Insect cell membrane Target site Resistant target site Insecticide & drug resistance insecticide didn’t kill all individuals resistant survivors reproduce resistance is inherited insecticide becomes less & less effective Target site Decreased number of target sites

Genome sequencing What can data from whole genome sequencing tell us about evolution of humans?

Primate Common Ancestry? Chromosome Number in the Great Apes (Hominidae) orangutan (Pogo) 48 gorilla (Gorilla) 48 chimpanzee (Pan) 48 human (Homo) 46 Could we have just lost a pair of chromosomes? Hypothesis: Change in chromosome number? If these organisms share a common ancestor, then is there evidence in the genome for this change in chromosome number

Chromosomal fusion What we should find: Testable prediction: If common ancestor had 48 chromosomes (24 pairs), then humans carry a fused chromosome (23 pairs). Ancestral Chromosomes What we should find: Fusion Homo sapiens Chromosome Number in the Great Apes (Hominidae) orangutan (Pogo) 48 gorilla (Gorilla) 48 chimpanzee (Pan) 48 human (Homo) 46 Inactivated centromere Telomere sequences in middle of chromosome Testable! This is what makes evolution science & not belief! Centromere: bonding point between chromosomes Telomere: at ends of chromosomes

Hillier et al (2005) “Generation and Annotation of the DNA sequences of human chromosomes 2 and 4,” Nature 434: 724 – 731. Guess what we found?!? Ancestral Chromosomes Chromosome 2 in Homo sapiens “Chromosome 2 is unique to the human lineage of evolution, having emerged as a result of head-to-head fusion of two chromosomes that remained separate in other primates. The precise fusion site has been located in 2q13–2q14.1, where our analysis confirmed the presence of multiple subtelomeric duplications to chromosomes 1, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 19, 21 and 22. During the formation of human chromosome 2, one of the two centromeres became inactivated (2q21, which corresponds to the centromere from chimp chromosome 13) and the centromeric structure quickly deterioriated.” Fusion Inactivated centromere Telomere sequences in middle of chromosome Well I’ll be a monkey’s …or an ape’s… uncle! Human Chromosome #2 shows the exact point at which this fusion took place

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