Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

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Father of Modern Genetics

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Gregor Mendel

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presented a mechanism for how traits got passed on

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Mendel

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Mendel’s Law of Inheritance

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• Law of segregation
• Law of independent assortment

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only one allele passes from each parent on to an offspring

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• Law of segregation

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different pairs of alleles are passed to offspring independently of each other

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• Law of independent assortment

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How many pea plants did mendel use

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29,000 pea plants

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what did mendel discovered based on pea plants?

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1:3 ratio of phenotypes due to dom. vs rec. alleles

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Mathematical description of Mendelian inheritance

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Hardy-Weinberg principle

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who discovered HWE?

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• Godfrey H. Hardy
• Wilhem Weinberg

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A population that is not evolving shows allele and genotypic frequencies that are in

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Hardy Weinberg equilibrium

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If a population is not in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, it can be concluded that the population is

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Evolving

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Evolutionary mechanisms

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• Genetic Drift
• Natural selection
• Mutation
• Migration

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change expression of alleles but not the frequency of alleles themselves

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Epigenetic inheritance is the

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Requirements of HW

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• Large population size
• Random mating
• No mutations
• No Natural Selection
• No Migration

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Principles of allele and genotype of population according to HWE;

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Remain constant from generation to generation

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A region of genome sequence (DNA or RNA), that is the unit of inheritance, the product of which contributes to phenotype

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Gene

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Location in a genome

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Locus

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Plural of locus

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Loci

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Variant forms of a gene

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Allele

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the combination of alleles at a locus (Gene)

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Genotype

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The expression of a trait, as a result of the genotype and regulation of genes

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Phenotype

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Variant forms of a gene

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Allele

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Diploid formula

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• p^2 + 2pq + q^2 = 1
• 1=p+q

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Triploid organism formula

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• (p+q)^3=1
• p^3 + 3p^q + 3pq^2 + q^3 = 1

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How can you tell whether a population is out of HW Equilibrium?

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1. When allele frequencies are changing across generations
2. When you cannot predict genotype frequencies from allele frequencies