In the Ireland, 9% of the population is red haired.  Assuming mating is random, what is the frequency of heterozygotes in Ireland?

Q: Full color (D) in domestic cats is dominant over dilute color (d). Of 325cats observed, 194 have…

A: According to Hardy-Weinberg Principle, gene frequencies will remain constant if all the five…

Q: 500 pea plants are growing in your garden. 400 of them are yellow, with half of them being…

A: Hardy Weinberg principle is applied to the fixed populations.

Q: Let us assume that thick and short ovipositors are dominant to long and thin ovipositors. In a…

A: In the area of population genetics, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, or more commonly, known as…

Q: In a population of 1000 baby kitties, 40 are white because of a recessive allele (b). Non-white cats…

A: The Hardy Weinberg principle states that the genetic variation (allelic and genotypic frequencies)…

Q: In a population that has been mating randomly for many generations, two 3. phenotypes are…

A: Hardy weinberg rule: p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1 p2 = dominant homozygous frequency (AA)2pq = heterozygous…

Q: Color in a species of minnows is determined by a single locus with two alleles:  D and d. DD…

A: DD encodes darker phenotype. Dd encodes intermediate phenotype. dd encodes pale phenotype.

Q: Johnston et al. estimate that 50% of males with the Ho Ho genotype develop scurs (instead of full…

A: We can claim that alleles are free to roam around the population because of the randomness of…

Q: what will happen to the allele frequency of a population over generations if the more rare flower…

A: Allelic frequency  It can be defined as relative frequency of a allele at perticular locus of a…

Q: In a certain population of frogs, 120 are green, 60 are brownish-green, and 20 are brown. The allele…

A: Incomplete dominance results when both alleles of a gene are partially expressed. Under these…

Q: In a group of 200 humans, 160 have blood type MM, 36 have MN and 4 have NN. What is the frequency of…

A: According to Hardy weinberg equilibrium p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1 and p + q = 1 p = frequency of the…

Q: The frequency of an autosomal recessive condition is 0.001 (1 in 1000) in a population. Assuming…

A: Hardy Weinberg’s principle is the mathematical representation of population analysis which…

Q: 10 0.9 0.8 8- 0.7 0.6 0.5- 0.4 5- 4- 3 2 0.3 0.2 0.1 01 234 S 6 7 8 9 10 Size of individual…

A: Answer ::   The correct answer would be 0.7 From the graph it is deductable that ,As the if the…

Q: In a certain population of frogs, 120 are green, 60 are brownish-green, and 20 are brown. The allele…

A: The ideal population is found in case of Hardy Weinberg equilibrium. The mutation, migration, and…

Q: In a large, randomly mating population with no appreciable forces working to change gene…

A: When disrupting variables are absent, gene frequencies tend to remain stable from generation to…

Q: Geneticists claim that if gene and genotype frequencies are not already in HW equilibrium, then one…

A: The HW equilibrium or the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium is a law that states, the genetic variation in…

Q: Within a randomly mating population of mammals, the homozygous presence of the recessive allele a…

A: Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) states that in a large population where no mutation, no genetic…

Q: Following up on Question 6, assuming random mating, what would be the percentage of long-horned baby…

A: In genetics the genes are basically the hereditary units of life. The genes contains certain…

Q: You measure the effects of a single allele (Y) on fitness in two populations of spiders, Population…

A: Introduction The incidence of a gene variant in a population is represented by the allele frequency.…

Q: If albinism occurs in 1/10,000 individuals in a population at equilibrium and is caused by an…

A: Step 1 Albinism is a genetic disorder that causes the skin, hair, eyes to either have little or no…

Q: "Nonrandom mating does not itself directly change allele frequencies" Explain this ?

A: Allele frequency can be defined as the percentage calculated on basis of the number of copies of the…

Q: In a population of pea plants, there were 20 pea plants with white flowers (pp), 160 were…

A: Hardy-Weinberg equation can be referred to as the calculation that can be utilized to find the…

Q: What is the average survival rate for the Minotaur when the breeding season starts?   A. 0.42…

A: Minotaur Minotaur is an Greek mythical creature which have head and tail of bull and body of human.…

Q: Suppose that in wasps, brown wings are dominant to white wings, and 40% of all wasps in a population…

A: The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium is used like a Punnett square to see if genotype frequencies in a…

Q: When male lions reach sexual maturity, they leave their pride in search of a new pride. Mating with…

A: Population consists of individuals of a particular species cohabiting in a certain geographical area…

Q: A situation in which hybrids are less successful (lower fitness) than individuals from either parent…

A: Answer

Q: In a population of snapdragons, at the locus controlling flower color you find that 0.2 are AA, 0.65…

A: Given: AA = 0.2 Aa = 0.65  aa = 0.15 Need to find the inbreeding coefficient.

Q: About 7% of men in a population are red-green colour blind due to a sex-linked recessive gene.…

A: The dominant allele is marked by the letter p, and the recessive allele is denoted by the letter q.…

Q: In tomatoes, red fruit (R) is dominant over yellow fruit (r). In a tomato plant population…

A: The red fruit is encoded by R allele. The R allele is dominant over r allele. The RR and Rr encode…

Q: In a population of cats, the phenotypic frequency of black cats is 91%, and the phenotypic frequency…

A: Introduction : The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium states that in the absence of disturbing factors, the…

Q: A population has the following gametic frequencies attwo loci: AB = 0.4, Ab = 0.1, aB = 0.1, and ab…

A: The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium is a principle that states that in the absence of disrupting forces,…

Q: If 98 out of 200 individuals in a population express the recessive phenotype, what percent of the…

A: INTRODUCTION Recessive alleles only express their phenotype if an organism carries two identical…

Q: The frequency of allele A in a population is 0.8 and the frequency of allele a is 0.2. If the…

A: The Hardy-Weinberg principle is also known as Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, model, theorem, or law in…

Q: In a population that is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, the frequency of the homozygous recessive…

A: INTRODUCTION Recessive alleles only express their phenotype if an organism carries two identical…

Q: In a  certain  breeding population , it is  known for  certain that  only 7.8% of  the individuals…

A:

Q: In a population of 100 pea plants, there are two variations for flowers colors-- purple and white.…

A: Total population = 100 White plants (qq) = 25 = 25/100= 0.25   frequency of allele Assuming 1:2:1,…

Q: What is the frequency of heterozygotes Aa in a randomly mating population if the frequency of the…

A: Genetics can assist us in comprehending why people appear the way they do and why some people are…

Q: A population of wild flowers was scored for flower color. There were 493 blue (BB) plants, 1633…

A: The question is related to Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium. p is the dominant allele. q is the recessive…

Q: a population of 100 pea plants, there are two variations for flower color--purple and white. After…

A: According to Hardy weinberg equilibrium- p2+q2+2pq=1 and p+q=1 Where p=frequency of the dominant…

Q: What is the expected frequency of heterozygotes in a population with allelic frequencies xand y that…

A: Evolution is the process of gradual accumulation of variations in the populations of the living…

Q: In a population of fresh-water fish, there are 2 types of scaling patterns- rough and smooth. It is…

A: Hardy Weinberg equilibrium is a imaginary which considers if there is no evolution then the…

Q: suppose 25 out of 750 students are redheads. what is frequency of redheads? if a random student is…

A: The calculation of frequency and probability is given below in the next step.

Q: populations of flightless grasshoppers (Population A and B) are separated by a river that contains…

A: This is a type of natural selection occurring here. Natural selection was a concept given first by…

Q: In a certain breeding population, it is known for certain that only 9.8% of the individuals are…

A: True-breeding individuals also known as purebred are able to pass down the same phenotypic traits to…

Q: Within a population of butterflies, the color brown (B) is dominant over the color white (b) and 40%…

A: Answer. In 1908, G.H. Hardy, a British mathematician, and Weinberg a German physician, independently…

Q: If the frequency of allele 1 is 0.8 and the frequency of allele 2 is 0.2 what is the expected…

A: EXPLANATION Hardy and Weinberg described all the possible genotypes for a gene with two alleles. The…

Q: population the homozygous dominant individuals made up 70% of the population, while heterozygous…

A: The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, often known as the Hardy-Weinberg rule, is a key population genetics…

Q: In a population where the frequency of white flowers was 16%, what % of the individuals would you…

A: When an allele masks the effect of another allele, it is called as that particular allele is…