Obtain a bag of M&Ms, a paper bag and a coin. 2) Separate out the brown and red M & M’s from the?

... bag (you could use any two colors... I’m just choosing brown and red).
3) Each M&M represents one allele for a color gene in a population. Let’s say that there are 2 allele types – red and brown! We can also make the assumption that brown is dominant to red.
4) We will create a population of 50 individuals. 13 individuals are homozygous brown, 25 individuals are heterozygous brown and 12 individuals are red.
5) How many alleles does each individual carry? ____________
6) How many total alleles do we need to create this population? ____________
7) Lay out pairs of alleles on a table which represent each individual in the population.
8) How many brown alleles are there in the population altogether? _________________
9) What proportion of total alleles is this? (Divide the total number of brown alleles by the total number of alleles). This number is “p” in the Hardy-Weinberg equation.
10) p = ___________. This is the allele frequency of brown alleles in your population.
11) How many red alleles are there in the population altogether? _____________
12) What proportion of total alleles is this? (Divide the total number of red alleles by the total number of alleles). This number is “q” in the Hardy-Weinberg equation