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According to the Hardy-Weinberg law, the genotype frequencies of dominant homozygotes, heterozygotes, and recessive homozygotes are represented by p2, q2, and 2pq, respectively, where p is the frequency of the dominant allele and q is the frequency of the recessive allele. Explain how this formula was derived.
 
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In HardyWeinberg calculations, p represents the frequency of the dominant allele and q represents the frequency of the recessive allele. Because the sum of p and q represents 100 of the alleles for that gene in the population, p + q = 1 . A Punnett square can be used to predict the genotypes produced by the random combination of these gametes. A look at the Punnett square shows that the frequency of homozygous genotypes with two copies of the dominant allele is represented as p2 , because p X p= p2; the frequency of heterozygous genotypes with one copy of each allele is represented as 2pq (pq + qp); and the frequency of homozygous recessive genotypes is represented as q2 because q X q= q2 . When added together, the frequencies of these three genotypes represent 100 of the genotypes for this gene in the population
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