Which of the Following Is a Key Assumption Underlying the Hardy-Weinberg

question 9

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a key assumption underlying the Hardy-Weinberg principle?
1) The members of the population mate at random with respect to the gene under study.
2) The members of the population are artificially selected with respect to the gene under study.
3) The members of the population must live on an island.

• A) 1
• B) 2
• C) 3
• D) 1 and 3
• E) 2 and 3

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Standard Deviation

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Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in a data set differ from the mean.

Set of Data

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