You Are Studying a Single-Gene Locus with Two Alleles in a Population

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Short Answer

You are studying a single-gene locus with two alleles in a population that is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Examination of a large sample of individuals from the population reveals there are six times as many heterozygotes as there are homozygote recessive individuals in this population. What is the frequency of the recessive allele?

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