hardy weinberg

Question 1

what are the factors affecting population allele frequencies?

Answer 1

genotypes don’t differ in fitness, population is infinitely large, no mutation, no migration and random mating

Question 2

what is the hardy-weinberg law?

Answer 2

relationship between allele frequencies and genotype frequencies

Question 3

what are the basic protocols of the hardy-weinberg law?

Answer 3

1. identify phenotype of interest
2. identify correlated genotypes
3. count genotypes in population
4. calculate allele frequency
5. use equation to calculate genotype frequency
6. stat. test to see if theres a sig diff