{"id":48182,"date":"2024-10-19T18:43:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T18:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=48182"},"modified":"2024-10-19T18:43:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T18:43:17","slug":"biology-assortative-mating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-assortative-mating\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology: assortative mating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring biology, terms come up. The tutor mentions assortative mating.<\/h2>\n<p>\nAssortative mating is the situation where individuals choose mates &#8220;similar&#8221; to themselves. With humans, one could imagine this as tall people choosing other tall people as mates. Technically, it&#8217;s phenotype choosing the same phenotype. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?s=phenotype\">my post here.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bio.libretexts.org\/Courses\/Reedley_College\/Biology_for_Science_Majors_I\/18%3A_The_Evolution_of_Populations\/18.02%3A_Population_Genetics#:~:text=One%20common%20form%20of%20mate,nonrandom%20mating%20is%20physical%20location.\">bio.libretexts.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring biology, terms come up. The tutor mentions assortative mating. Assortative mating is the situation where individuals choose mates &#8220;similar&#8221; to themselves. With humans, one could imagine this as tall people choosing other tall people as mates. Technically, it&#8217;s phenotype &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-assortative-mating\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology: assortative mating<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48182"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48188,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48182\/revisions\/48188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}