BIOB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Genetic Drift, Mutation Rate, Population Genetics
3 Dec 2015
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Mutation however is not a driving force of evolution. Even though mutations create new allele in the population, the. It is not potent enough impact is not very high: this is because mutations are rare and random. Mutation can occur at any locus this they are random- Mutations are rare and only 1 in 10,000 per nucleotide is the general rate at which mutations take place: likelihood that a large number of individuals will undergo the same mutation is very low. Hardy-weinberg, the null model: this is the equilibrium model which is used to compare the conditions in every population in order to see what stage a certain population is at. model. We will study the effect of mutation on the hw equilibrium. What causes evolutionary change in a population: a way of knowing if the populations wil undergo evolution or if. Individuals do not evolve, populations evolve. they are evolving is to inbreed the offspring and its parents generation.
