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Question by punjabi jatt: How does evolutionary biology fit into everyday life?
This question is for an exam and I have looked on the web and am now trying here. Please help. “how does evolutionary biology fit into everyday life? what can evolution reveal about inherited disease? How can infectious diseases that were once seemingly defeated or controlled by drugs now be on the rise?

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Answer by emucompboy
> how does evolutionary biology fit into everyday life?
You have to get a new flu shot every year, and the one you get this year may not work this year because it’s for last year’s strains. Where are all these new strains coming from? They evolve.

> what can evolution reveal about inherited disease
Whether they’re autosomal or sex-linked; whether they’re dominant or recessive. Armed with this, a “genetic counselor” can tell a couple the probability that they’ll have a defective kid, and if it’s too high then they should consider marrying other people who aren’t carriers.

> How can infectious diseases that were once seemingly defeated or controlled by drugs now be on the rise?
Use of antibiotics has selected bacterial populations for resistance to these antibiotics.

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