Minotaur is only found in the Labyrinth on the island of Crete. The area is famous for its annual spectacle of "Minotaur run," where herds of Minotaur rush out of the Labyrinth to reach their breeding grounds on the beautiful Aegean seashore. A group of Olympian scientists discovered that the horn size of the Minotaur is controlled by a single locus, with HH individuals having the longest, the Hh the medium, and hh the shortest horns. It is further found that the long-horned individuals tend to be tangled up along the way during the annual migration out of the Labyrinth, such that only 80% of the HH individuals can make it out of the Labyrinth alive. Once outside the Labyrinth, the short-horned individuals tend to be less successful at finding food, thus 60% would die from starvation before the beginning of the breeding season. Since the Hh individualsâ horn size are just right, so all of them survive the annual challenge. Initially, the annual migration of Minotaur started out with 1,000 individuals (300 HH, 400 Hh, and 300 hh) inside the Labyrinth.  What is the medium-sized baby minotaur frequency for the next generation?     -0.141     -0.244     -0.281     -0.400     -0.488

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Minotaur is only found in the Labyrinth on the island of Crete. The area is famous for its annual spectacle of "Minotaur run," where herds of Minotaur rush out of the Labyrinth to reach their breeding grounds on the beautiful Aegean seashore. A group of Olympian scientists discovered that the horn size of the Minotaur is controlled by a single locus, with HH individuals having the longest, the Hh the medium, and hh the shortest horns. It is further found that the long-horned individuals tend to be tangled up along the way during the annual migration out of the Labyrinth, such that only 80% of the HH individuals can make it out of the Labyrinth alive. Once outside the Labyrinth, the short-horned individuals tend to be less successful at finding food, thus 60% would die from starvation before the beginning of the breeding season. Since the Hh individualsâ horn size are just right, so all of them survive the annual challenge. Initially, the annual migration of Minotaur started out with 1,000 individuals (300 HH, 400 Hh, and 300 hh) inside the Labyrinth. 

What is the medium-sized baby minotaur frequency for the next generation?

   

-0.141

   

-0.244

   

-0.281

   

-0.400

   

-0.488

 
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