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12 years ago
Are inbreeding and assortative mating consistent with the assumption of RANDOM mating of the Hardy Weinberg principle? Yes or no? Explain...give me a thorough explanation please...five stars to whoever does!
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12 years ago
No.  HW is just a statistical model, it's the same model you'd use for predicting the proportions of which jelly beans you'd pull out of a hat filled with an infinite number of jelly beans, or any other activity where you'd choose two items with two possibilities given known ratios.

Given that that's all it is, it cannot account for inbreeding or assortative mating, differential survival, limited population sizes, etc.
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12 years ago
Random mating means that every individual of the opposite sex in the population has an equal probability of becoming my mate.  If I mate only with close relatives, or with some other subgroup, then that is not the case, because some people have a greater chance of mating with me than others.  That equal probability is vital to the H-W statistical predictions.
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