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Hardy Wein Berg Equilibrium problemModerator: BioTeam
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Hardy Wein Berg Equilibrium problemHello,
Can anybody help me with this? I'm completely stumped and have an exam tomorrow. 8. A population of white-clover plants on the coast of Wales includes individuals that release cyanide when their leaves are damaged (cyanogenic plants) and those that do not (acyanogenic plants). These differences in cyanide production are controlled by two alleles at a single locus, with the "cyanogenic" allele being completely dominant to the "acyanogenic" allele. Because cyanide production discourages feeding by land snails, acyanogenic plants have 20% lower survival than cyanogenic plants. Suppose that clover plants that survive to reproduce produce equal numbers of seeds, regardless of their cyanogenesis phenotype. If the acyanogenic allele represents 30% of the gene pool of one generation, what proportion of clover plants zygotes would be cyanogenic in the next generation? A. 0.981 B. 0.918 C. 0.566 D. 0.073 E. 0.019 THANK YOU!
I'll use c and a instead of standard p and q)
a = 0.3 -> c = 1 - a = 0.7 aa = 0.3^2 = 0.09 20% of 0.09 = 0.018, i.e. there will be next year 0.09 - 0.018 = 0.072 Thus there will be of cyanogenic plants: 1 - 0.072 = 0.928 which does not fit to any option http://www.biolib.cz/en/main/
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
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