Question

A large population of rabbits is kept in captivity as part of an experiment. At the start of the experiment, you genotype all of the rabbits at the RBX4 gene and calculate how common each allele is (the allele frequency) in the population. The frequency of the dominant allele is 0.6, and the frequency of the recessive allele is 0.4. If you let the rabbits freely mate and make sure all the rabbits are well cared for, what will happen to the allele frequencies of RBX4 after 10 generations? Please explain your reasoning.

Answer 1

According to the principle of Hardy Weinberg equilibrium, the allelic frequency remain constant from generation to generation.

In this case, there is found large population size. Every rabbit is cared personally. Hence there is not ofind reducrion in population size. There is not found any non random mating in this situation. All the postulate are obeyed in this population. That's why the population is in Hardy Weinberg equilibrium.

Hence the allelic frequency of RbX remains same.

The frequency of the dominant allele will be 0.6, and the frequency of the recessive allele will be 0.4.