Population Genetics
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Genetics is a wonderful study which lets us know more about our genetic make-up than the naked eye could ever allow us to. It makes us understand how likely we are to suffer from a life-threatening illness if our parents happened to suffer from the same thing and can also be used in several other ways. Let’s take a closer look at genetics with regards to population, shall we?
Questions and Answers
- 1.If the frequency of the a allele is 0.1, then, if the population is at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, the percentage of individuals that are aa should be ______%
- 2.If the frequency of the a allele is 0.1, then, if the population is at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, the percentage of individuals that are Aa should be ______%
- 3.If the frequency of the a allele is 0.1, then, if the population is at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, the percentage of individuals that are AA should be ______%
- 4.If, in a population at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, 4% of the individuals are aa, then the percentage of AA individual should be ______%
- 5.Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium assumes that in the population
- A.
No selection is occurring.
- B.
No mutation is occurring
- C.
No migration is occurring
- D.
Mating is random
- E.
The mating population is very large
- F.
All of the above
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