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question 78

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Suppose you have a population of flour beetles with 1,000 individuals.Normally the beetles are red;however,this population is polymorphic for a mutant autosomal body color,black,designated by bb.Red is dominant to black,so BB and Bb genotypes are red.Assume the population is at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium,with equal frequencies of the two alleles.
-What would be the expected frequencies of the red and black phenotypes?

• A) 0.25 red;0.75 black
• B) 0.5 red;0.5 black
• C) 0.75 red;0.25 black
• D) All red
• E) All black

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