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EDX WEEK 11 LEARNING OUTCOMES The outcomes of this week's online learning include: 

Describing the contribution of Darwin (and his key contemporaries) to evolutionary thinking

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Understanding how mutation, genetic drift and gene flow affect genetic diversity within and between populations.

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Relating genotypes of individuals to population allele frequencies via the Hardy-Weinberg Model

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Using the Hardy-Weinberg Model as a test for evolution

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all livings things are linked via a shared history tracking ack to the first life on earth. Evidence of this is in the modern age of genomics – where we find a universal genetic code, core sets of genes among diverse taxa and eukaryote organelles that derive from free-living. We also see the spectacular diversity of forms and organisms uniquely adapted to their environment. Recently exponential radiation of organism complexity through the appearance on noncoding DNA and RA (in eukaryotes) o This often leads to spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) o An individual born with these types of genetics defect commonly exhibit various developmental disorders. Plant tolerates these changes more than animals can....