Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

AP Biology· difficulty 3/5

Genotype frequencies and relative fitness for a population at one locus.

Genotype Frequency Fitness SS 0.49 1.0 Ss 0.42 1.0 ss 0.09 0.0

Which evolutionary force is most strongly indicated?

  • A

    Heterozygote advantage

  • B

    Natural selection against the recessive homozygote

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  • C

    Mutation-selection balance favoring SS

  • D

    Genetic drift

Explanation

The ss genotype has zero fitness while SS and Ss are equally fit. This is selection against the recessive homozygote, which slowly removes s alleles from the population.

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