Spoink is a Pokemon character with a spring tail. It must bounce continuously or it will die. Imagine that the spring in the tail is controlled by a single gene with two alleles T and t. Individuals with the genotype TT have very stiff tails that take a lot of energy to bounce, Tt have just the right amount of spring, and those with tt tails have very floppy tails that deform after long periods of bouncing, making it very difficult to continue bouncing. The genotype frequency in this population is: TT=25% Tt=70% tt=5% Part A: The frequency of the t allele in the population is ___%. The expected frequency of the Tt genotype in the population is ___%. Part B: Is the population of Spoink in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium? A. Yes B. No Rationale? Part C: What type of selection, if at all, might be operating on Spoink tails springy-ness? A. Stabilizing Selection B. Balancing Selection C. Directional Selection D. Disruptive Selection E. No selection is occurring; population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
Spoink is a Pokemon character with a spring tail.
It must bounce continuously or it will die. Imagine that the spring in the tail is controlled by a single gene with two alleles T and t.
Individuals with the genotype TT have very stiff tails that take a lot of energy to bounce, Tt have just the right amount of spring, and those with tt tails have very floppy tails that deform after long periods of bouncing, making it very difficult to continue bouncing.
The genotype frequency in this population is:
TT=25%
Tt=70%
tt=5%
Part A:
The frequency of the t allele in the population is ___%.
The expected frequency of the Tt genotype in the population is ___%.
Part B:
Is the population of Spoink in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium?
A. Yes
B. No
Rationale?
Part C: What type of selection, if at all, might be operating on Spoink tails springy-ness?
A. Stabilizing Selection
B. Balancing Selection
C. Directional Selection
D. Disruptive Selection
E. No selection is occurring; population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
The allele and genotype frequencies will remain the same generation after generation if the population does not show natural selection, mutation, migration. The population should be large and sexually reproducing and follow random mating.
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