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question 97

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions:
Suppose you have a population of flour beetles with 1,000 individuals. Normally the beetles are red; however, this population is polymorphic for a mutant autosomal body color, black, designated by b/b. Red is dominant to black, so B/B and B/b genotypes are red. Assume the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, with equal frequencies of the two alleles.
-What would be the expected frequencies of the red and black phenotypes?

• A) 0.5 red; 0.5 black
• B) 0.75 red; 0.25 black
• C) 0.25 red; 0.75 black
• D) 0
• E) Insufficient information is given to answer the question.

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