GENESS

Today in class we did another activity in which we run around and pretend to mate with each other to see whether the trend that Hardy Weinberg proposed was correct,that p and q should both be around 0.5. Hardy Weinberg suggested that the amount of recessive and dominant genes can be represented by p^2+2pq+q^2 = . So we were assigned with AaAa genes from the beginning with A as the dominant gene and a as recessive, and we pick off random cards from another classmate when "mating". In the end we got answers pretty close to 0.5 and 0.5 we got something like 0.6 and 0.4 but then again we didnt have a large enough population as Hardy would suggest, so I guess it was good enough.