e is eliminated after three generations. In conclusion even though not letting carriers reproduce would get rid of the disease quicker I doubt it would work because no one has the right to tell another if they can reproduce or not.In the next problem we worked on we had to find out what would happen if the allele for Huntington's was recessive and not dominant. Would this effect how quickly the allele is eliminated? As it turns out, yes it does effect how quickly the allele is eliminated. Our original hypothesis was the allele would die off at a slower rate because the disease did not affect the carriers; they were simply carriers, passing their alleles to the next generation. To do this we set survival rate and reproductive rate opposite that of our first trial, we did this to show the disease affects the recessive and not the dominant. This hypothesis was correct, it took approximately 47 generations for the homozygous recessive to hit zero. The heterozygous genotype was never eliminated this is because the heterozygous individuals weren't effected by the disease they just passed it on to their children. Also in this particular situation the allele for Huntington's disease is never eliminated. This is because since the disease doesn't affect the heterozygous genotypes they will always reproduce and spread the disease further.When the gene for the disease is dominant the allele is eventually eliminated. But when the disease is recessive it is near impossible for the allele to be completely eliminated because the disease doesn't affect the heterozygous individuals, there for they reproduce and live as someone who does not have the disease allele at all. ...
