7 Genetics, population genetics and evolutionary processes Copyright © UCLES 2018 Passage of information from parent to offspring 16.1 16.2 Variation 17.1 The role of genes in determining the phenotype 17.2 Natural and artificial selection 17.3 Evolution Genetic inheritance Evolution parents offspring homologous pairs of chromosomes diploid haploid C G T T A A C C T T A A mutation A a A a AA Aa Aa aa A C G T T A T G C A A T gene locus allele continuous discontinuous A B AB O environmental milk yield p 2 + 2pq + q 2 = 1 Hardy–Weinberg principle Variation Evolution KC 1 KC 2 KC 3 KC 4 KC 5 Key: KC 6 KC KC KC KC KC