What is the significance of the Hardy-Weinberg principle in biology?
QUESTION
What does the Hardy-Weinberg law predict about allele frequencies?
QUESTION
What does the variable p represent in the Hardy-Weinberg principle?
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ANSWER
The frequency of one allele of a gene in the population. By convention p is often assigned to the dominant allele, and q is the frequency of the other allele, so p+q=1 for a two-allele gene.