Answer :
If the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (the genetic variation in a population will remain constant through the generation in the absence of disturbing factors) then p2+2pq+q2=1 or p+q=1
p is the frequency of allele (dominant)
q is the frequency of allele (recessive)
p2 is the frequency of dominant homozygous genotype
2pq is the frequency of heterozygous
q2 is the frequency of recessive homozygous genotype If p=0.4 then q=0.6
p is the frequency of allele (dominant)
q is the frequency of allele (recessive)
p2 is the frequency of dominant homozygous genotype
2pq is the frequency of heterozygous
q2 is the frequency of recessive homozygous genotype If p=0.4 then q=0.6
Answer:
- The frequency of the recessive allele (r) is 0.6 ,
- Frequency of dominant allele R (p) + freq. of recessive allele r (q) = 1
- if the frequency of allele R is 0.4 , so freq. of allele r is 0.6
Explanation:
Alleles:
- An allele is a version of a gene, a heritable unit that controls a specific feature of an organism.
- For example, Mendel studied a gene that controls flower color in pea plants.
- This gene comes in: a white allele,w and a purple allele,W
- w: recessive allele but W: is dominant allele
- Each pea plant has two gene copies , which may be the same or different alleles, ex; (WW\ Ww\ ww) ( see first picture)
- If the two gene copies is:
WW: this mean pea plant will take purple color
Ww: the dominant purple allele,W, will hide the recessive
white allele, w,and pea plant will be purple.
ww: pea plant will be white
Allele frequency :
- Refers to how frequently a particular allele appears in a population
(A population is a group of organisms of the same species that are found in the same area )
- For example : if all the alleles in a population of pea plants were purple alleles, W, the allele frequency of W would be 100%, or 1 However, if half the alleles were W and half were w, each allele would have an allele frequency of 50%, or 0.5
- [tex]frequency of allele W =\frac{Number of allele copies W in population}{Total number of allele copies W and w in population}[/tex]
Example: Finding allele frequency: ( see second picture)
- Let’s look at an example ( pic. 2) Consider the very small population of nine pea plants . Each pea plant has two copies of the flower color gene.
- If we look at the two gene copies in each plant ( pic 2 ) and count up how many W copies are present, we find there are 13. If we count up how many w copies are present, we find that there are five. The total number of gene copies in the whole population is 13 + 5 = 18 .
- We can divide the number of copies of each allele by the total number of copies to get the allele frequency.
- When there are just two alleles for a gene in a population, their frequencies are given the symbols (p) and (q) :
- [tex]freq. of allele W (p) =\frac{13}{18}= 0.72[/tex]
- [tex]freq of allele w (q) =\frac{5}{18} =0.28[/tex]
- The frequencies of all the alleles of a gene must add up to one ( p+q=1).
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