Mesa Chromosomes 16gg8 ESD.77 Chromosome(string) l「 alleles gene 01011110100 01 Each chromosome represents a solution often using strings of Os and 1s. each bit typically corresponds to a gene. This is called binary encoding The values for a given gene are the alleles A chromosome in isolation is meaningless need decoding of the chromosome into phenotypic values o Massachusetts Institute of Technology -Prof de Weck and Prof. Willcox Engineering Systems Division and Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics12 © Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Prof. de Weck and Prof. Willcox Engineering Systems Division and Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics Chromosomes Chromosomes Chromosome (string) gene 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 ….. 0 1 alleles Each chromosome represents a solution, often using strings of 0’s and 1’s. Each bit typically corresponds to a gene. This is called binary encoding. The values for a given gene are the alleles. A chromosome in isolation is meaningless - need decoding of the chromosome into phenotypic values