Tongue rolling ability is conferred by the presence of a dominant R allele. Nonrollers are genotype rr. A class of GN 311 students consists of 105 rollers and 27 nonrollers. Assume that this population is at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for this locus. Please round all answers correctly to 4 decimal digits. What is the frequency of the R allele? Answer: 0.5477 What is the frequency of the r allele? Answer: 0.4523 How many people in the class are expected to be heterozygous for this locus? Answer: 65

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Tongue rolling ability is conferred by the presence of a dominant R allele. Nonrollers are genotype rr. A class of GN 311
students consists of 105 rollers and 27 nonrollers. Assume that this population is at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for this
locus.
Please round all answers correctly to 4 decimal digits.
What is the frequency of the R allele?
Answer: 0.5477
What is the frequency of the r allele?
Answer: 0.4523
How many people in the class are expected to be heterozygous for this locus?
Answer: 65
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Transcribed Image Text:Tongue rolling ability is conferred by the presence of a dominant R allele. Nonrollers are genotype rr. A class of GN 311 students consists of 105 rollers and 27 nonrollers. Assume that this population is at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for this locus. Please round all answers correctly to 4 decimal digits. What is the frequency of the R allele? Answer: 0.5477 What is the frequency of the r allele? Answer: 0.4523 How many people in the class are expected to be heterozygous for this locus? Answer: 65 Next page ?
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