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QuizMultiple Choice

Hardy-Weinberg Principle

Question 4 • Q5 Biology 2014

In one kind of butterfly, brown color is caused by a dominant allele, B, and white color is caused by a recessive allele, b. The table shows the observed numbers of phenotypes in a population of 100 butterflies.PhenotypeNumber of individualsBrown84White16What is the frequency of the heterozygous genotype in this population of butterflies?

Answer
A
0.24
B
0.36
C
0.48
D
0.60
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