When you mate two curly-haired cats, who are both heterozygous for both genes described above, which phenotype will be present at the lowest frequency among the offspring? straight-haired cats curly-haired cats hairless cats straight-haired and hairless cats are the lowest frequency (equal) all phenotypes are equally frequent O 00 0 O
Evolutionary Genetics
Evolution is known as continuous changes that occur to adjust organisms in their changing environment over many generations. Various theories have been proposed to illustrate the origin of life and organic evolution. The most accepted one is the theory of natural selection by Charles Darwin. According to his postulate, organisms undergo a struggle for existence due to overproduction. To survive in nature, they acquire variations. The inheritable variations are selected by nature, and it leads to the survival of the fittest.
Phenotype Frequency
The majority of populations have a certain degree of variation in their genetic pools. Scientists can predict the genetic variation happening over time by measuring the amount of genetic variation in a population and these predictions assist them in gaining important insights into the processes that allow organisms to adapt to the environment or to develop into new species over generations. This process is referred to as the process of evolution.
Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium
The frequencies of allele and genotype were maintained constant from one generation to another due to the absence of other evolutionary forces. It is otherwise called the Hardy Weinberg principle the field of population genetics.
![Cats are hairless when homozygous recessive (hh) for the Hairless gene. Cats have straight hair when recessive for the curly gene (cc). The H gene determines whether hair
can be produced, and the C gene determines whether the hair is curly. These genes work in an epistatic pathway, with H/h first, then C/c. You cross a straight-haired cat to a
hairless cat with genotype CChh, and find that all of the F1 kittens have curly hair.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fb7e381b3-da1b-4848-95dd-676393b6ed7e%2Fe4bccda6-2b97-4828-aa1f-97cf9ea19443%2Fxouikao_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
![When you mate two curly-haired cats, who are both heterozygous for both genes described above, which phenotype will be present at the lowest frequency among the
offspring?
straight-haired cats
curly-haired cats
hairless cats
straight-haired and hairless cats are the lowest frequency (equal)
all phenotypes are equally frequent](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fb7e381b3-da1b-4848-95dd-676393b6ed7e%2Fe4bccda6-2b97-4828-aa1f-97cf9ea19443%2F8y8l4d_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
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