Last year you sampled a population of asters in the Rochester area and the allele frequencies for one locus (region of the genome) were p=0.7, q=0.3. Assuming that the population is in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium with respect to that locus, which of the following would you expect when sampling this year?   a. 42% of the asters are expected to be homozygous dominant.   b. 91% of the asters are expected to be heterozygous.   c. 9% of the asters are expected to be homozygous recessive.   d. 53% of the asters are expected to be heterozygous.

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Last year you sampled a population of asters in the Rochester area and the allele frequencies for one locus (region of the genome) were p=0.7, q=0.3. Assuming that the population is in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium with respect to that locus, which of the following would you expect when sampling this year?

  a.

42% of the asters are expected to be homozygous dominant.

  b.

91% of the asters are expected to be heterozygous.

  c.

9% of the asters are expected to be homozygous recessive.

  d.

53% of the asters are expected to be heterozygous.

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