Mendelism

Question 1

Why did Mendel use pea plants?

Answer 1

self-fertilie, hermaphrodite, plants differ from each other in a number of discrete characteristics

Question 2

What are the assumptions of the Hardy-Weinberg model?

Answer 2

1. No selection - individuals of all genotypes have equal rates of survival and equal reproductive success
2. No mutation - no new alleles are created or converted into another by mutation
3. no migration - no alleles leave the population
4. the population infinitely large so that sampling effects and other random errors are negligible
5. individuals in a population mate randomly

Question 3

What are the consequences of the Hardy Weinberg equation?

Answer 3

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Question 4

Why would there still be cystic fibrosis in the population, if all cystic fibrosis suffered had no children?

Answer 4

Because of carriers
the incidence of heterozygote carriers is larger than homozygous individuals
- you would have to get rid of all the carriers and the all the sufferers