The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium is a principle stating that the genetic variation in a population will remain constant from one generation to the next in the absence of disturbing factors.

The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium principle describes the unchanging frequency of alleles and genotypes in a stable, idealized population. In this population we assume there is random mating and ...

If the genotype frequencies in a population deviate from Hardy-Weinberg expectations, it takes only one generation of random mating to bring them into the equilibrium proportions, provided that ...