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3. In a population of 300 lizards, there is variation in head shape. Sixty individuals have the recessive phenotype with a narrow head and 240 have the dominant phenotype with a wide head. Assuming the population is in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE): a. What are the allele frequencies? b. Calculate the number of each genotype

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          3. In a population of 300 lizards, there is variation in head shape. Sixty individuals have the 
recessive phenotype with a narrow head and 240 have the dominant phenotype with a wide 
head. Assuming the population is in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE):
a. What are the allele frequencies? 
b. Calculate the number of each genotype

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Biology for AP Courses

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11/04/2021

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Step 1: To find the allele frequencies, we can use the equation p + q = 1, where p represents the frequency of the dominant allele and q represents the frequency of the recessive allele. Show more…

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3. In a population of 300 lizards, there is variation in head shape. Sixty individuals have the recessive phenotype with a narrow head and 240 have the dominant phenotype with a wide head. Assuming the population is in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE): a. What are the allele frequencies? b. Calculate the number of each genotype