Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Is there a variation in the frequency of genotypes from parent to next generation?

EVEN if all conditions of the hardy-weinberg equations are met, when the alleles recombine during mating are random and the genotype frequency will vary slightly............unless the population is unimaginably large....





am i right?Is there a variation in the frequency of genotypes from parent to next generation?
Yes but it won't be a statistically significant variation otherwise you'd have had to violate the conditions,





The sampling effect would be quickly canceled out so you would expect for anything except a small population for there to be no variation in frequency in a statistically significant way, but the zero variation statement would only hold true for an infinite population size.

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