Wednesday, August 10, 2011

If the frequency of the dominant allele in a population is 0.85, what is the percentage of heterozygous phenot?

If the frequency of N is 0.85, then the frequency of n is 0.15. According to Hardy-Weinberg equation #2, the frequency of heterozygotes is 2(0.85)(0.15) = 0.255.

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