Question

Which of the following scenarios would prevent a population from being in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?

Answer 1

Answer:

D

Explanation:

One of the assumptions of the Hardy Weinberg equilibrium is that the population should not experience mutations. Mutations are usually the base on which natural selection acts by selecting the advantageous alleles and weeding out the disadvantageous ones. This is how populations evolve.

Other assumptions of this equilibrium are; there should be no migration (hence gene flow), the population is infinitely large, and mating is random.