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question 68

Multiple Choice

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A large population of laboratory animals has been allowed to breed randomly for a number of generations. After several generations, 25% of the animals display a recessive trait (aa) , the same percentage as at the beginning of the breeding program. The rest of the animals show the dominant phenotype, with heterozygotes indistinguishable from the homozygous dominants.
-What is the estimated frequency of allele A in the gene pool?

• A) 0.25
• B) 0.50
• C) 0.75

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