Question

Why is the population not in Hardy Weinberg equilibrium?

Answer 1

Hardy Weinberg equilibrium:

1. The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium states that genetic variation in a population will remain stable from generation to generation in the absence of disrupting events.
2. If the allele frequencies change from the original frequencies after one cycle of random mating, the population is not in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, and evolution has occurred within the population.
3. In order for a population to be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, evolutionary forces such as gene flow, mutation, natural selection, genetic drift, and so on should not be present, and evolution should not occur in the population.
4. The population may be in equilibrium if we consider a single gene, but if we consider the complete genome, the population is unlikely to be in equilibrium and not changing at all for all genes.