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Hardy-Weinberg Discussion Questions
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Question 1
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What does the term "frequency" mean, and how do you calculate it?
Question 2
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How do you write 1% as a decimal?
Question 3
3.
How do you write 10% as a decimal?
Question 4
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How do you write 100% as a decimal?
Question 5
5.
If the frequency of the dominant allele increases, what happens to the frequency of the recessive allele?
increases
decreases
stays the same
impossible to say
Question 6
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In any population, should the frequency of the dominant allele or the dominant phenotype be higher?
allele
phenotype
Question 7
7.
Why?
Question 8
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What mathematical term(s) in the equations would represent the frequency of the recessive phenotype?
Question 9
9.
Which of these mathematical terms can be used to determine the frequency of the dominant phenotype?
Question 10
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If, in a question, you are given the frequency of the recessive phenotype, what variable (p or q) can you immediatly solve for? How?
Question 11
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If you are given the frequency of the dominant phenotype, what do you have to do before you can solve for either p or q?
