In an large population of daisies, 25% of the flowers have the recessive white flower phenotype. The remainder of the population is yellow. If the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what percentage of flowers would you expect to be homozygous dominant?
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In a population in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, the frequency of the recessive allele (q) can be calculated using the square root of the frequency of the recessive phenotype. In this case, since 25% of the flowers have the recessive white flower phenotype, the Show more…
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