Under What Circumstance Might Measuring the Frequency of Homozygous Recessive

question 7

Multiple Choice

Under what circumstance might measuring the frequency of homozygous recessive genotypes lead to erroneous predictions of allele frequencies in a population?

• A) The population is under Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
• B) The population is affected by heterozygote advantage.
• C) The population has undergone genetic drift in the past.
• D) The population is affected by homozygote advantage.

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