If you violate any of the conditions necessary for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium what happens to allelic?

Question

frequencies in a population?

Answer 1

All conditions of the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium are violated in real life. The conditions are caveats. They are put into place more to state the weaknesses of the equation. So the allelic frequencies are altered in normal circumstances, but the equation is useful in getting you in the ball park when predicting genotype.

Answer 2

they no longer remain constant. the frequencies p and q only remain constant when the population is in hardy-weinberg equilibrium, which is a theoretical state that doesn't really happen in nature.