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Garrulous

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You sample a population of butterflies and find that 56% are heterozygous at a particular locus. What should be the frequency of the recessive allele in this population?
A) 0.07
B) 0.08
C) 0.09
D) 0.70


Hawke

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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2013
E) Allele frequency cannot be determined from this information.


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