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You are a geneticist studying a population of 100 barn swallows. You are particularly interested in one gene, and upen examining the alleles present, you find one allele is quite common, accounting for 80 of the alleles in this population. What is the frequency of this allele in the population?

You are a geneticist studying a population of 100 barn swallows. You are particularly interested in one gene, and upen examining the alleles present, you find one allele is quite common, accounting for 80 of the alleles in this population. What is the frequency of this allele in the population?

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1. 9. You are a genetiCıst studying a population of 100 barn swallows. You are particularly interested in one gene, and upon examining the alleles present, you find one allele is quite common, accounting for 80 of the alleles in this population. What is the frequency of this allele in the population? 4. 5. The ability to breathe fire in dragons is controlled by a single gene with two alleles. The fire-breathing allele (F) is dominant to the non-fire breathing allele (f). In a population of 600 dragons, 150 dragons are non-fire breathing (ff) and the rest can breathe fire (either FF or Ff) The population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The frequency of the dominant allele (F) is represented by "p and the frequency of the recessive allele (f) is represented by "q". Recall the allele frequency is p+ q = 1 and the Hardy-Weinburg equation is p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1 (2 pts). What is the frequency of the recessive allele (f)? Hint: you can figure out the frequency of ff, which is equal to q2, but then you need to solve for A. q. What is the frequency of heterozygous individuals (Ff) in the population? Hint: this would be equal to 2pq. You already solved for q, so you need to determine p before you can solve for 2pq. B. 6. Two populations of frogs are separated from each other by a large distance, however, a few male frogs make the journey each year to breed with females in the other population. Would you expect these populations to eventually become separate species? Why or why not?
Transcribed Image Text:1. 9. You are a genetiCıst studying a population of 100 barn swallows. You are particularly interested in one gene, and upon examining the alleles present, you find one allele is quite common, accounting for 80 of the alleles in this population. What is the frequency of this allele in the population? 4. 5. The ability to breathe fire in dragons is controlled by a single gene with two alleles. The fire-breathing allele (F) is dominant to the non-fire breathing allele (f). In a population of 600 dragons, 150 dragons are non-fire breathing (ff) and the rest can breathe fire (either FF or Ff) The population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The frequency of the dominant allele (F) is represented by "p and the frequency of the recessive allele (f) is represented by "q". Recall the allele frequency is p+ q = 1 and the Hardy-Weinburg equation is p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1 (2 pts). What is the frequency of the recessive allele (f)? Hint: you can figure out the frequency of ff, which is equal to q2, but then you need to solve for A. q. What is the frequency of heterozygous individuals (Ff) in the population? Hint: this would be equal to 2pq. You already solved for q, so you need to determine p before you can solve for 2pq. B. 6. Two populations of frogs are separated from each other by a large distance, however, a few male frogs make the journey each year to breed with females in the other population. Would you expect these populations to eventually become separate species? Why or why not?
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