Lesson 4: Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium Flashcards
Darwin’s observation
- evolution acts through CHANGES IN ALLELE FREQUENCE at each generation
- leads to average change in characteristic of population
“individuals pass allels on to their offspring intact”
idea of particulate (genes) inheritance
Mendel’s Laws of Inheritance
- Laws of Segregation
- Law of Independent Assortment
only one allele passes from each parent on to an offspring
Law of Segregation
different pairs of alleles are passed to offspring independently of each other
Law of Independent Assortment
what did Mendel discover using 29,000 pea plants
1:3 ratio of phenotypes due to dominant vs. recessive alleles
mathematical description of Mendelian inheritance
Hardy-Weinberg Principle
what is the testing for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium can be used to
asses whether a population is evolving
genotypic frequencies that are in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
population that is not evolving
genotypic frequencies not in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
population is evolving
Evolutionary Mechanisms that will put population out of HW Equilibrium
- genetic drift
- natural selection
- mutation
- migration
genetic drift
- change in frequency of an existing gene variant in the population due to RANDOM chance
- may cause gene variants to disappear completely and thereby reduce genetic variation
natural selection
idea that organisms that are best suited to survive pass their traits down
mutation
change in the DNA sequence of an organism
migration
causes the transfer of genes from one population to the othe
change expression of alleles but not the frequency of alleles themselves, so they won’t affect the actual inheritance of alleles
epigenetic modifications
an evolving population is one that __ Hardy-Weinberg Assumptions
violates
Requirement of HW -> Evolution
large population size -> ?
genetic drift
Requirement of HW -> Evolution
random mating -> ?
inbreeding & other