Selection Against a Deleterious Recessive Allele Is Replenished in the Population

question 26

Multiple Choice

Selection against a deleterious recessive allele is replenished in the population by mutation,and leads to a dynamic equilibrium in which the frequency of the recessive allele is a simple function of the mutation rate and the selection coefficient.Which formula represents this situation?

• A) p²+2pq+q²
• D) 1/2N
• E) None of these

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