Some of the conditions that must be met for a population or an allele to be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium are:
1. The population must be very large.
2. There must be no migration and population must be isolated.
3. There must be no mutations.
4. There must be random mating, which means there are no mating preferences.
So, a population will not be at Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium if it is small, or there are mutations, which is not mentioned, but mutations are expected to occur. Also, although there is a large mountain, skunks can migrate to some other area of a woodland. So, probable mutations and migrations suggest that the population is not at <span>Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium.</span>
The answer is phenotypes.
Phenotype is the physical characteristics of an organism which are the result of interaction between genotype and environment. <span>Genotype is the entire set of genes in the organism. </span>Genes have alternative forms called alleles which can be the same or different at one locus. No matter if they are different, they have the same function but give different physical characteristics. Knowing the genotype can help predicting the phenotype. For example, if we know which genes determine the eye color and know someone's genotype, it is easy to predict if someone will have blue or brown eyes.
