1. In a population of plants, flower color is controlled by a single gene with two alleles (P and p). PP individuals have purple flowers, Pp individuals have pink flowers, and pp individuals have white flowers. Suppose you randomly sampled 100 individuals from the population and found that 75% of the plants had purple flowers, 20% had pink flowers, and 5% had white flowers. a. With regard to the flower color gene, is the population in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium? Use the space below to show your work. Critical value df=1= 3.841  b. n a second population of the same kind of plants, 16% of the plants have white flowers. Assuming a) that flower color is controlled by the same gene as in the first population, b) that there are the same two alleles as in the first populations, and c) that the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what proportion of the plants should have pink flowers in this second population? Show your work.

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1. In a population of plants, flower color is controlled by a single gene with two alleles (P and p). PP individuals have purple flowers, Pp individuals have pink flowers, and pp individuals have white flowers. Suppose you randomly sampled
100 individuals from the population and found that 75% of the plants had purple flowers, 20% had pink flowers, and 5% had white flowers.

a. With regard to the flower color gene, is the population in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium? Use the space below to show your work. Critical value df=1= 3.841 

b. n a second population of the same kind of plants, 16% of the plants have white flowers. Assuming a) that flower color is controlled by the same gene as in the first population, b) that there are the same two alleles as in the first populations, and c) that the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what proportion of the plants should have pink flowers in this second population? Show your work.

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