Student Objectives for Laboratory 10

Understand what a representative sample is
Understand the importance of sample size in obtaining a representative sample

Understand what it means for a population to have random mating
Know that random mating produces a binomial distribution of genotypes
Understand what it means for a population to be in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Know the conditions that must exist for a population to be in HWE
Know how to calculate genotype and allele frequencies for a population in HWE

Understand how genetic drift occurs in populations
Understand how alleles can go extinct under genetic drift

Understand how selection occurs in populations
Be able to define fitness
Be able to predict the fate of alleles given fitness values of genotypes
Know how deleterious recessive alleles persist in populations.

Be able to answer the discussion questions at the end of the exercise