Define and give an example of assortative mating. Will this affect genotype frequencies?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers may vary. Assortative mating is a type of nonrandom mating that occurs when individuals tend to mate with others having the same phenotype with respect to a certain characteristic. Human males and females tend to marry individuals with similar intelligence and height as their own. This would affect genotype frequencies in a population, with an increase in homozygotes and a decrease in heterozygotes for certain gene loci.
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