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Population genetics is the study of how localized groups of individuals capable of interbreeding and creating fertile progeny change genetically over time. The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium accounts for gene pools that do not change genetically over time. In this experiment, I intended to determine whether the sample population consisting of my fellow biology lab classmates would fall in the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium with respect to the ALU insert from human chromosome 8. My hypothesis was that this sample population would fall in the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium with respect to the ALU insert. To analyze whether this sample population was in the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium or not, I amplified a sample DNA polymerase from a cheek cell of each individual through PCR and electrophoresis. I then determined the allele frequency and predicted the genotype frequencies from these allele frequencies through the Hardy-Weinberg equation. Based on the chi-squared test, I found that the......

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