You Are Studying Cannibals in Borneo and Want to Determine $\begin{array}{lllc}&&&\underline{ Phenotypes }\\\text { M } & \text { MN } &N& \text { Total \# genotypes } \\287 & 665 & 123 & 1075\end{array}$

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Essay

You are studying cannibals in Borneo and want to determine if a specific village population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium with respect to the two co-dominant M and N blood type alleles (L^M, L^N) segregating at the single-gene locus. The following are sample data from this population of the cannibals: $\begin{array}{lllc}&&&\underline{ Phenotypes }\\\text { M } & \text { MN } &N& \text { Total \# genotypes } \\287 & 665 & 123 & 1075\end{array}$ a. Calculate the genotypic frequencies.
b. Calculate frequencies for the L^M and L^N alleles.
c. Determine whether this population of Borneo cannibals is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

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