Which of the following is a correctly stated condition that must be true for a population to be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?

a. There must not be random mating.
b. There must be a benefit of one genotype over another.
c. The population must be large.
d. There must be mutations within the population.


Ans: c. The population must be large.

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