Genetic coding and mapping

• What should the phenotype look like and how to encode it as a genotype?

• How does one map from genotype to phenotype, considering the sources of variation (mutation and recombination)?

  • Highly problem dependent!
  • Hint: small changes to genotype should often result in small changes to phenotype, i.e. similar performance: heritability of traits!
  • heritability of traits is important  otherwise GA becomes only random search

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