Human Anatomy & Physiology (11th Edition)
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A small portion of a population migrates to an isolated island. Its genotypic frequencies are 0.8 AA, 0.1 Aa and 0.1 aa. These individuals start a new population on this island. What violation of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium is being described here?
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