A population of beetles have 345 red-sided individuals and 707 tan-sided individuals. Assume that red is totally recessive. How many of the total population (1052) are heterozygous? Explain how you found this.

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Learning is defined as a relatively permanent and irreversible adaptive change in behavior. It always results from experience. The ability of an organism to store and recall the effects, sensations, and knowledge gained through learning and experience is called memory.