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Question 1

Definition population

Answer 1

A group of organisms of the same species occupying a particular space at a particular time and that can potentially interbreed

Question 2

What do species exist as

Answer 2

species exist as one or more populations

Question 3

Definition of gene pool

Answer 3

All the alleles of all the genes of all the individuals in a population at a given time

Question 4

Definition of allelic frequency

Answer 4

The number of times an allele occurs within the gene pool

Question 5

what is hardys weinburg principle about?

Answer 5

• It is used predict or calculate the frequency of alleles of a particular gene in a population.
• will stay constant from one generation to the next
• providing there is no mutation/ no migration/ mating is random/ population is isolated/ population is large

Question 6

what is the hardy Weinberg equation?

Answer 6

P^2+2PQ+Q^2
p is the frequency of dominant allele
Q is the frequency of recessive allele