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Which of the following is NOT part of the definition of a “population?” 

Which of the following is NOT a reason that natural selection cannot fashion perfect organisms?

is the only evolutionary mechanism that consistently leads to adaptive evolution. 

You calculate specific allele frequencies for your population of frogs using the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium equation and then compare those calculations to the observed allele frequences of your population. You find that the calculated allele frequencies (predicted frequencies) do NOT match the observed allele frequencies. You conclude that your frog population is likely . 

Where does most of the genetic variation in a sexually reproducing population come from?

TRUE or FALSE: The main requirement of a good heuristic is that it is guaranteed to find the optimal solution to the model.

TRUE or FALSE: The main requirement of a good heuristic is that it should converge to a solution regardless of the amount of computational effort.

Consider the following warehouse with square storage grids numbered 1 through 20. All pallets enter through port 1 (SW corner, gird id#1). 40% of the pallets depart through port 2 (SE corner, grid#4 ) and 60% use port 3 (NW corner, grid#13). Two product types are stored.  Product type 1 requires 4 grids and product type 2 requires 16. Total product throughput is 20 pallets per day for product type 1 and 40 pallets per day for product type 2. Each grid is 1 x 1. In which grids should you store product type 1 (select all grid numbers applicable)? (Note: You must show your computations for at least one grid location). (10 pts) Port 3 (0,4) 16 17 18 19 20 11 12 13 14 15 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 Port 1 (0,0)              Port 2 (5,0)

TRUE or FALSE: Implicit Enumeration is a method for solving problems by asking experts for their best estimate of what to do.

During the pandemic, the valley was experiencing a toilet-paper shortage. You were hired as an engineer at Charmin to help prioritize which cities in the valley should receive their orders first to maximize their profits. The issue is that the one semi-truck you will be loading has a limit on the number of rolls it can hold. The semi-truck can carry 10 rolls from floor to ceiling, 10 rolls from left to right, and 40 rolls from the back to the front of the trailer. You were told by the cities that because of the toilet paper shortage, they are okay with receiving partial orders since their customers are in a stinky situation. Below is each city needing toilet paper, the number of rolls they are requesting, and what the profit is. You will be using a Greedy Knapsack approach to solve this problem.                                                 a. Write the objective function and any constraints for this problem. [5pts]b. Determine the order of which cities you should ship to and list the number of rolls all 6 cities will receive. [5pts] c. What is the total profit? [5pts]