You Are Studying a Population of Geese in Which There

question 4

Multiple Choice

You are studying a population of geese in which there are two color phases, brown and gray.Color in this species is controlled by a single gene, with brown dominant to gray.A random sample of 250 geese shows that 210 are brown.What percentage of the brown geese are heterozygous? (Assume that the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.)

• A)36%
• B)43%
• C)48%
• D)57%

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