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The presence of cheek and chin dimples is dominant to the lack of dimples, and the ability to taste the compound PTC is dominant to the failure to taste the compound, in humans. Both these qualities are autosomal and unlinked. The allele frequencies for dimples are
Calculate the frequency of genotypes for each gene and the frequency of each
Estimate the expected frequencies of the four probable phenotype combination: Dimpled nontasters, dimpled tasters, undimpled tasters, and undimpled nontasters.
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Hardy-Weinberg explains that allelic frequency in a population can be maintained but population should fulfill some criteria i.e. there should be random mating, no mutation, large
Hardy-Weinberg mathematical equation to calculate the allelic and genotypic frequency is
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