Answer to Question #175638 in Evolution for Adriana Carlino

Question

In the year 2850, humans successfully colonized Mars. The Martian modules that were constructed could hold only a small population of people. It is now a century later, and the population on Mars has grown to 600 people. Of the current Mars population, 45 people express the recessive phenotype for phenylketonuria (PKU) syndrome (pp genotype).

Answer 1

The current population in hardy-weinberg is at equilibrium and the current population is Genetic drift the mechanism of evolution in which allele frequencies of a population change over generations due to chance