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Among the five factors that are known to affect Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, three factors are gene flow, genetic drift and genetic recombination. What are the other two factors?
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Solution
Among the five factors that are known to affect Hardy Weinberg equilibrium, three factors are gene flow, genetic drift, genetic recombination, Mutation, and Natural Selection are the other two factors.
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