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About 70 percent of all Caucasians can taste the chemical phenylthiocarbamide, and the remainder cannot. The ability to taste this chemical is determined by the dominant allele T, and the inability to taste is determined by the recessive allele t. If the population is assumed to be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what is the heterozygotes frequency in this population?
a. 0.7
b. 0.4
c. 0.2
d. 0.5
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