18.1 Population genetics

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Gene pool:

  • All the alleles of all the genes of all the individuals in a population at a given time are known as the gene pool.

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Allelic frequency

  • The number of times an allele occurs within the gene pool is known as the allelic frequency

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If our population of 10,000 people, if all 10,000 had the genotype FF, then:

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The Hardy-Weinberg principle: assumptions

  • The proportion of dominant and recessive alleles of any gene in a population remains the same from one generation to the next.

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This is the case if five conditions are met:

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