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21 January, 17:36

What would be the expected frequencies of the homozygous dominant, heterozygous, and homozygous recessive (in that order) after 100 generations, assuming that no selection or other evolutionary processes are operating?

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  1. 21 January, 17:49
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    Answer: If no forces act on a population in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, proportion of genotypes will stay the same.

    Explanation: The Hardy-Weinberg law provides an equation to relate the genotype frequencies and allele frequencies in a randomly mating population.

    For two alleles, p and q, p + q = 1 and following mating, p² + 2pq + q² = 1 where p = homozygous dominant, pq = heterozygous and q = homozygous recessive.

    Population in which allele frequencies do not change are in genetic equilibrium (zero evolution).

    Hardy-Weinberg assumes five conditions;

    1. Large population

    2. Random mating

    3. No immigration or emigration

    4. No selection

    5. No mutation
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