A species of rodent can either have brown fur or white fur. Brown fur is recessive and white fur is dominant.

Which of the following would cause the rodent population to not be in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium?

Brown fur allows rodents to hide more easily.

White fur attracts mates better.

Rodents cannot leave or enter their habitat.

The rodents mate randomly.

The rodents mutate a new allele for gray hair.

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Adriana Kemp

4 July, 13:49

A species of rodent can either have brown fur or white fur. Brown fur is recessive and white fur is dominant.

Which of the following would cause the rodent population to not be in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium?

Brown fur allows rodents to hide more easily.

White fur attracts mates better.

Rodents cannot leave or enter their habitat.

The rodents mate randomly.

The rodents mutate a new allele for gray hair.

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Gunnar Lang · Answer 1

The mutation as the Hardy - Weinberg equation assumes that there would be no evolutionary pressures such as mutations. Hardy - Weinberg represents an 'ideal' where the allele frequencies would remain constant.