In eggplants, fruit color is due to two alleles with the Purple allele (CP) incompletely dominant over White (CW). Plants that are heterozygous for this allele produce light violet colored fruit. A biologist surveys a field of eggplants that has been left alone for several years, allowing the eggplants to reproduce and grow without harvesting or disturbance. She finds that 600 of the plants make purple fruits, 200 make light violet fruits, and 200 produce white fruits. Calculate p (fraction of CPalleles in the populations): Calculate q (fraction of CWalleles in the populations): If this population of plants is at Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, what fractions (round to two decimal places) of the next generation of egg plants will produce Purple, White, and Violet fruits? Purple: Violet: White: If the frequency of white alleles was actually much higher in next generation than expected, and continued to increase in future generations, and the population stays relatively large, what type of natural selection is this?
In eggplants, fruit color is due to two alleles with the Purple allele (CP) incompletely dominant over White (CW). Plants that are heterozygous for this allele produce light violet colored fruit.
A biologist surveys a field of eggplants that has been left alone for several years, allowing the eggplants to reproduce and grow without harvesting or disturbance. She finds that 600 of the plants make purple fruits, 200 make light violet fruits, and 200 produce white fruits.
Calculate p (fraction of CPalleles in the populations):
Calculate q (fraction of CWalleles in the populations):
If this population of plants is at Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, what fractions (round to two decimal places) of the next generation of egg plants will produce Purple, White, and Violet fruits?
Purple:
Violet:
White:
If the frequency of white alleles was actually much higher in next generation than expected, and continued to increase in future generations, and the population stays relatively large, what type of natural selection is this?
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