kabtq9s Junior Member 15+ Year Member Joined Jun 29, 2004 Messages 203 Reaction score 2 May 9, 2011 #1 Members do not see this ad. why did we have to take the square root ? http://mysowar.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/square-root.jpg Thanks in advance
Members do not see this ad. why did we have to take the square root ? http://mysowar.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/square-root.jpg Thanks in advance
flodhi1 Membership Revoked Removed 10+ Year Member Joined Jan 31, 2011 Messages 1,983 Reaction score 9 May 9, 2011 #2 kabtq9s said: why did we have to take the square root ? http://mysowar.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/square-root.jpg Thanks in advance Click to expand... q^2 which is 160 individuals /1000 represents the genotype you need to get the allele which is q thus you would square root it. Once obtaining q you find p which is the dominant allele by 1-q. After obtaining p and q you get the heterozygous by 2pq Upvote 0 Downvote
kabtq9s said: why did we have to take the square root ? http://mysowar.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/square-root.jpg Thanks in advance Click to expand... q^2 which is 160 individuals /1000 represents the genotype you need to get the allele which is q thus you would square root it. Once obtaining q you find p which is the dominant allele by 1-q. After obtaining p and q you get the heterozygous by 2pq
