Master Hardy-Weinberg Principle with Picmonic for Medicine

The evolutionary forces can also be described as 5 conditions that need to be met for a population to be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

One of the conditions is no selection. This means that there can be no selection against inferior traits or for beneficial traits in the population.This would cause a boon to the beneficial alleles and removal from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

Small population sizes can result in deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium due to genetic drift. This occurs because the effects of random sampling are more prominent in a smaller population size. That is why large populations are needed for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

If individuals are allowed to migrate from population to population, that can shift the allelic and genotypic frequencies over time.

Individuals must mate randomly to preserve Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. If not, situations like inbreeding can occur which will cause an increase in homozygous phenotypes for all genes.

Mutations can change the genotype and phenotype of an individual. No net mutations means that there can be some mutations, as long as they cancel each other out. For example, if a mutation causes A to change to B in one individual and another mutation causes B to change to A in a different individual, those two effects cancel out.