In pea plants, the color purple is dominant to the color white. A farmer with an isolated patch of pea plants counts 36 purple-flowering plants and 64 white-flowering plants. Assuming the patch is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what is the frequency of the white allele? O 0.75 O 0.64 O 0.80 O 0.36

In pea plants, the color purple is dominant to the color white. A farmer with an isolated patch of pea plants counts 36 purple-flowering plants and 64 white-flowering plants. Assuming the patch is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what is the frequency of the white allele? O 0.75 O 0.64 O 0.80 O 0.36

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Chapter19: Evolutionary Change In Populations

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Problem 11TYU: If all copies of a given locus have the same allele throughout the population, the allele frequency...

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