Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium At Biology Glossary

What is it? The stable frequency distribution of genotypes, AA, Aa, and aa, in the proportions p2, 2pq, and q2 respectively (where p and q are the frequencies of the alleles, A and a) that is a consequence of random mating in the absence of mutation, migration, natural selection, or random drift.

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