{"id":131716,"date":"2023-02-20T14:26:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T08:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=131716"},"modified":"2023-02-20T14:28:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T08:58:50","slug":"how-is-hardy-weinbergs-expression-p2-2pqq-2-1derived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/education\/how-is-hardy-weinbergs-expression-p2-2pqq-2-1derived","title":{"rendered":"How is Hardy-Weinberg&#8217;s expression \u201c(p2 + 2pq+q 2 ) = 1\u201dderived?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Question : How is Hardy-Weinberg&#8217;s expression \u201c(p2 + 2pq+q 2 ) = 1\u201dderived?<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>The correct answer is \u2013 (a) Sum Total of All the Allele Frequencies is 1: Let there be two alleles A and a in a population. The frequencies of alleles A and a are \u2018p\u2019 and \u2018q\u2019 respectively. The frequency of AA individuals in a population is p 2 and it can be explained that the probability that an allele A with a frequency of p would appear on both the chromosomes of a diploid individual is simply the product of the probabilities, i.e., p2<br \/>\nSimilarly, the frequency of aa is q2<br \/>\nand that of Aa is pq.<\/h3>\n<p>3<br \/>\n4<br \/>\np<br \/>\n2<br \/>\n+ 2pq+q 2\u00a0= 1,where p 2<br \/>\nrepresents the frequency of homozygous<br \/>\ndominant genotype, 2pq represents the frequency of the heterozygous<br \/>\ngenotype and q 2 represents the frequency of the homozygous<br \/>\nrecessive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : How is Hardy-Weinberg&#8217;s expression \u201c(p2 + 2pq+q 2 ) = 1\u201dderived? &nbsp; The correct answer is \u2013 (a) Sum Total of All the Allele Frequencies is 1: Let there be two alleles A and a in a population. The frequencies of alleles A and a are \u2018p\u2019 and \u2018q\u2019 respectively. The frequency of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21842,"featured_media":131459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-131716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131722,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131716\/revisions\/131722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}