Hardy Weinberg Stuff

Hardy Weinberg plan

• I will be calculating the probability of a child inheriting sickle cell anemia if both parents

carry the trait but are not affected by it.

• By using a punnett square there is a 25% chance of the child not inheriting the sickle cell

disease at all, 50% chance of the child inheriting it but not being affected by it, and 25% of the child inheriting the disease and being affected by it.

• Then by using the hardy weinberg equation with a google spread sheet, i can find the

probability of the next generations inheriting sickle cell anemia.

Spread sheet

• P represents the dominant allele which means the person does not have the trait.
• Q represents the recessive allele which means the person carries the sickle cell anemia trait.
• I made the dominant trait .75 and the recessive trait .25. By doing this the sickle cell anemia trait continued to stay low throughout the generations.

powerpoint of presentation: https://docs.google.com/a/husdstudent.com/presentation/d/14r4cODEzY8hf_GTslouNuiNxdrLJJBIIWjWV3m1x6Wk/edit#slide=id.p