Author:
Kristi Prohm

Date of Publication:
May 10, 2019

Publication:
The Better Breeding Blog

Excerpt:
Last week we saw how crossbreeding — or more accurately, random matings and/or matings between unrelated populations — do not change gene and genotypic frequencies from generation to generation. This phenomenon is known as the Hardy-Weinberg Equlibrium, named after its co-discovers the English mathematician Godfrey Hardy and the German obstetrician-gynecologist Wilhelm Weinberg.

The Hardy-Weinberg Equilbrium states that gene and genotypic frequencies will not change from generation to generation, assuming random matings in the absence of external forces. It further states that, given two alleles at a locus with gene frequencies p and q within a population, that the genotypic frequencies of those alleles will be P = p², H = 2pq, and Q = q².

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