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Agriculture · Q735

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 735

Q735

Assumptions of Hardy-Weinberg law are

A.
Organisms are diploid
B.
Mating is random
C.
Population size is infinite
D.
All of the above
Answer

Answer: Option D

Solution

Answer: Option D
Solution:
Assumptions of Hardy-Weinberg law are all the above that are Organisms are diploid, Mating is random and Population size is infinite.
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) is a null model of the relationship between allele and genotype frequencies, both within and between generations, under assumptions of no mutation, no migration, no selection, random mating and infinite population size.