Monday, September 15, 2008

Illustrating Random Genetic Drift

 
John Hawks has been generating some graphs for his class in order to illustrate random genetic drift. See how he does it at Some genetic drift graphs with Mathematica.


The important point, which most students don't get, is that eventually one allele will become fixed in the population and the other will be eliminated for ever.1


1. In a simple two allele situation in a sexual population.

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