New York City parks are home to Caenorhabditis remanei, a species of microscopic nematode whose populations exhibit random mating and all the other good stuff that leads to Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Consider an autosomal STR locus that has three alleles. (Each worm only has two copies of the locus, of course. It's similar to the ABO locus in humans in having more than two alleles.) The alleles differ in the number of repeats of the DNA sequence CTT. One allele is known as 28, because it has 28 repeats, and the others are similarly named 31 and 36. They have the following frequencies in New York:
Allele
Frequencies
28
0.1
31
0.4
36
0.5
Q2.1
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What is the expected frequency of 28/28 homozygotes?
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Q2.2
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What is expected to be the most common genotype in this population? (Note that I'm asking for a genotype, so the answer should tell me the two copies of the locus, just as you would write RR, Rr, rr for genotype at the pea R locus, but here it would be 28/28 or 28/36 or whatever your answer is.)