Incomplete dominance and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

In population genetics, the Hardy–Weinberg principle, also known as the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium, model, theorem, or law, states that allele and genotype frequencies in a population will remain constant from generation to generation in the absence of other evolutionary influences. Population genetics is intimately bound up with the study of evolution and natural selection, and is often regarded as the theoretical cornerstone of modern Darwinism. This is because natural selection is one of the most important factors that can affect a population’s genetic composition. Natural selection occurs when some variants in a population out-reproduce other variants as a result of being better adapted to the environment, or ‘fitter’. Presuming the fitness differences are at least partly due to genetic differences, this will cause the population’s genetic makeup to be altered over time. By studying formal models of gene frequency change, population geneticists therefore hope to shed light on the evolutionary process, and to permit the consequences of different evolutionary hypotheses to be explored in a quantitatively precise way. #HardyWeinbergPrinciple #dominance #populationGenetics #NikolaysGeneticsLessons #hardyWeinbergPrinciple #hardyWeinbergLaw #hardyWeinbergTheory #hardyWeinbergHypothesis #geneFrequency #AlleleFrequency #evolution #populationBiology #punnettSquares #chromosomes #XChromosome #yChromosome #genetics #DNA #recessive #dominant #genotype #phenotype #genes #nonmendelian #testCross #science #Karyotype #Heterozygous #howToMakeAPunnettSquare #PhenotypicTrait #punnettSquare