Outline the assumptions made in establishing the Hardy-Weinberg law. What will be an ideal response? What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER: ? The population is very large.
? No genotype is better than any other; that is, all genotypes have equal ability to
survive and reproduce.
? Mating in the population is random.? Other factors that change allele frequency, such as mutation and migration, are
absent or are rare events and can be ignored.

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