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You are studying Tay-Sachs disease, which is a recessive trait in humans. In a population of 200 people, 75 are homozygous dominant, 100 are heterozygous, and 25 are homozygous recessive. a. What is the frequency of the dominant allele? b. What is the frequency of the recessive allele? c. What is the frequency of the heterozygous genotype?

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          You are studying Tay-Sachs disease, which is a recessive trait in humans. In a population of 200 people, 75 are homozygous dominant, 100 are heterozygous, and 25 are homozygous recessive.
a. What is the frequency of the dominant allele?
b. What is the frequency of the recessive allele?
c. What is the frequency of the heterozygous genotype?

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05/31/2022

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Given that the frequency of the recessive allele (q) is 0.4, we can calculate the frequency of the dominant allele using the equation p = 1 - q. p = 1 - 0.4 p = 0.6 Show more…

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You are studying Tay-Sachs disease, which is a recessive trait in humans. In a population of 200 people, 75 are homozygous dominant, 100 are heterozygous, and 25 are homozygous recessive. a. What is the frequency of the dominant allele? b. What is the frequency of the recessive allele? c. What is the frequency of the heterozygous genotype?