You are studying a very large population of tiny aliens that have DNA that is amazingly accurate (100%) at replicating itself. You are keeping them in a special, stable, and isolated environment where none of the aliens can get out and no one can get in (don't want them mixing with our kind!). You notice they have a trait that causes them to have enormous ears and find that for this trait, they have a genotypic frequency of p=0.5 and q=0.5. How would you expect these frequencies to change if you continued watching this population for 25 years? Explain why.
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Since the DNA replication is 100% accurate and the environment is stable and isolated, we would expect the genotypic frequencies to remain the same over the 25 years. This is because there is no mutation, migration, or selection pressure to change the frequencies. Show more…
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