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Question 6 (1 point) You are studying a population of ground squirrels that live

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Question 6 (1 point)

You are studying a population of ground squirrels that live in the rocks at Huntington Beach. You isolate DNA and measure the genotypes of 300 individuals. You find 116 with the AA genotype, 159 with the AG genotype and 25 with the GG phenotype. You determine that this population is not in H-W Eq. What might be pushing this population out of H-W Eq?

Question 6 options:

Positive Assortative Mating

Negative Assortative Mating

Isolation by Distance

Inbreeding

Positive Assortative Mating

Negative Assortative Mating

Isolation by Distance

Inbreeding

Explanation / Answer

Negative assortive mating.