The focus of this class was once again on the random mating that occurs in the animal world. Everyone was told to get two dominant gene cards represented by A, and two recessive gene a's. We walked around the classroom to music, mingling with each other. When the music stopped, the person we were closest to was supposed to pick from our cards unknowingly, and vice versa. Like the tiger and bag experiment, this represented the random, un-biased mating that happens.
After going through several generations, we were taught a new equation to help solve for the gene frequencies of populations. It is known as the Hardy Weinberg equilibrium. The two important equations for solving these problems are p+q=1 and...
After this, we took a quiz on solving Hardy-Weinberg problems.
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