Which circumstance violates the conditions of the Hardy-Weinberg model?
A) The population is infinitely large.
B) The population is closed to migration from other populations.
C) No mutations are occurring.
D) All genotypes in the population survive and reproduce equally well.
E) Nonrandom mating with respect to genotypes occurs between individuals.

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The Hardy-Weinberg model assumes random mating among individuals. Nonrandom mating with respect to genotypes (choice E) violates this assumption, leading to changes in allele frequencies that the model does not account for.

Which Circumstance Violates the Conditions of the Hardy-Weinberg Model