Explain the Significance of the Experiments of Mukai and Burdick

question 26

Essay

Explain the significance of the experiments of Mukai and Burdick (1959)with laboratory populations of Drosophila melanogaster using the V (viable)and L (lethal)alleles.Be sure to explain their observation that a lethal allele was maintained at a higher than expected frequency,and the evolutionary significance of overdominance in these populations.

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