The idealized population

THE IDEALIZED POPULATION

  • The Idealized Population In order to deduce the dispersive process to its simplest form we imagine an idealized population as follows:
    • Suppose there is one large population in which mating is random, and this population becomes sub divided into a number of sub-populations.
    • The initial random mating populations will be referred as the base population and the sub-populations will be referred to as lines.
    • Each line is considered as a small population in which gene frequencies are subject to the dispersive process.
  • Conditions for the idealized population are as follows:
    • The generations are distinct and do not overlap.
    • Mating is restricted to members of the same line or in other words migration is excluded.
    • The number of breeding individuals is equal for all lines and in all generations.
    • Mating is random within each line.
    • Selection is absent.
    • Mutation is disregarded.

Idealized population

  • The conditions specified for the idealized population may not hold in real population.
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