GENETIC ANALYSIS: AN INTEG. APP. W/MAS
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Chapter 22, Problem 21P
The frequency of tasters and nontasters of PTC (see Problem
a. Calculate the frequency of the dominant (T) allele for PTC tasting and the recessive (t) allele for nontasting in each population.
b. Assuming that Hardy
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