Population Genetics: When Darwin Met Mendel - Crash Course Biology #18
Hank talks about population genetics, which helps to explain the evolution of populations over time by combing the principles of Mendel and Darwin, and by means of the Hardy-Weinberg equation....
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Hey look! It's our friend Gregor Mendel, the supermonk who discovered the basic principles of genetics. Hopefully you remember all of this. Both parents contribute one version of each of their genes called an allele, to their offspring. And some of those alleles are dominant, or always expressed, while others are recessive and only expressed when they're not paired with a dominant one. Oh, and here's our old friend Chucky D, he lets me call him that. All this information that Mendel figured out would have been really quite interesting to him, because Darwin spent his whole life defending his ideas of Natural Selection as the primary force for Evolution. But, Darwin had no idea how traits were passed on to their offspring, even though the...
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Hey look! It's our friend Gregor Mendel, the supermonk who discovered the basic principles of genetics. Hopefully you remember all of this. Both parents contribute one version of each of their genes called an allele, to their offspring. And some of those alleles are dominant, or always expressed, while others are recessive and only expressed when they're not paired with a dominant one. Oh, and here's our old friend Chucky D, he lets me call him that. All this information that Mendel figured out would have been really quite interesting to him, because Darwin spent his whole life defending his ideas of Natural Selection as the primary force for Evolution. But, Darwin had no idea how traits were passed on to their offspring, even though the...
