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The frequency of two alleles in a gene pool is 0.19 (A) and 0.81(a). Assume that...

  1. The frequency of two alleles in a gene pool is 0.19 (A) and 0.81(a). Assume that the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

(a) Calculate the percentage of heterozygous individuals in the population.

(b) Calculate the percentage of homozygous recessives in the population.

  1. An allele W, for white wool, is dominant over allele w, for black wool. In a sample of 900 sheep, 891 are white and 9 are black. Calculate the allelic frequencies within this population, assuming that the population is in H-W equilibrium.
  1. In a population that is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, the frequency of the recessive homozygote genotype of a certain trait is 0.09. Calculate the percentage of individuals homozygous for the dominant allele.

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