Campbell Essential Biology (7th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134765037
Author: Eric J. Simon, Jean L. Dickey, Jane B. Reece
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 13, Problem 14PS
Imagine that the presence or absence of stripes or the snails from the previous question is determined by a single gene locus, with the dominant allele (S) producing striped snails and the recessive allele (s) producing unstriped snails Combining the data from both the living snails and broken shells, calculate the following: the frequency of the dominant allele, the frequency of the recessive allele, and the number of heterozygotes in the observed groups.
| Striped Shells | Unstriped Shells | |
| Number of live snails | 264 | 296 |
| Number of broken snail shells | 486 | 377 |
| Total | 750 | 673 |
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