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A hypothetical species of plant has flowers whose color is controlled by a single gene with two alleles, blue (B) and yellow (Y), where blue is dominant and yellow is recessive. A population of 2430 of these plants includes 190 plants with yellow flowers.
Assuming that the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what is the frequency of the yellow allele?
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