In a randomly mating laboratory population of Drosophila, 4 percent of the flies have black bodies (encodedby the autosomal recessive b), and 96 percent havebrown bodies (the wild type, encoded by B). If this population is assumed to be in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium, what are the allele frequencies of B and b and thegenotypic frequencies of B/B and B/b?

In a randomly mating laboratory population of Drosophila, 4 percent of the flies have black bodies (encodedby the autosomal recessive b), and 96 percent havebrown bodies (the wild type, encoded by B). If this population is assumed to be in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium, what are the allele frequencies of B and b and thegenotypic frequencies of B/B and B/b?

Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)

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Chapter19: Population Genetics And Human Evolution

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Problem 9QP: Using the HardyWeinberg Law in Human Genetics Suppose you are monitoring the allelic and genotypic...

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