A rather large population of foxes has 555 individuals with tan fur and 390 individuals with red fur. Assume that red is recessive.
If you started with what do you find next?
Options
A
B
C
D
Answer & Analysis
Answer
B
Analysis
The correct answer is: B.q
Explanation:
Once you have q², which represents the frequency of individuals with the homozygous recessive genotype (aa), the next step is to calculate q (the frequency of the recessive allele).
To do this, you take the square root of q²:
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