The Hardy-Weinberg Law states that under certain conditions, a population is able to maintain its relative allele frequencies, i.e., a stable ratio of dominant to recessive genes. This ratio is the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium. Consider a population whose gene pool contains the alleles A and a. Alleles are alternative forms of a gene at the same position on a chromosome. In a diploid individual, there are two possible alleles at each locus. If they are different, then the individual is said to be heterozygous and if they are the same, the individual is said to be homozygous. On the other hand, a population is able to have many different alleles at the same locus. The gene frequency of an allele within a population is the number of a specific type of allele divided by the total number of genes for that trait. Gene frequencies can be...