Imagine a case where a for two-allele locus"aa" homozygotes have a distinctive green phenotype. You sample 200 individuals from a population and find that 28 of them are green. If you assume that this locus and the focal population conforms to all HWE assumptions, what would be the expected frequency of the "a" allele in this population?
the population is in Hardy Weinberg equilibrium
Number of aa individuals=28
frequency of aa genotype= number of individuals with aa genotype/total number of individuals
=28/200
= 0.14
the frequency of allele a =
square root
of the genotypic frequency of aa
=
0.14
= 0.374
frequency of allele a = 0.374
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