A population of rabbits may be brown (the dominant phenotype) or white (the recessive trait) brown hair (B) is dominant to blond hair (b) hat is the predicted fre"uency of hetero%ygotes& 0.
A population of rabbits may be brown (the dominant phenotype) or white (the recessive trait) brown hair (B) is dominant to blond hair (b) hat is the predicted fre"uency of hetero%ygotes& 0.
A population of rabbits may be brown (the dominant phenotype) or white (the recessive trait) brown hair (B) is dominant to blond hair (b) hat is the predicted fre"uency of hetero%ygotes& 0.
1. A population of rabbits may be brown (the dominant phenotype) or white (the recessive phenotype). Brown rabbits have the genotype BB or Bb. hite rabbits have the genotype bb. !he fre"uency of the BB genotype is .#$. hat is the fre"uency of hetero%ygous rabbits& 0.484 hat is the fre"uency of the B allele& 0.59 hat is the fre"uency of the b allele& 0.41 '. A hypothetical population of 1()((( humans has *+,( individuals with the blood type AA) '+*( individuals with blood type AB and #(( individuals with the blood type BB. hat is the fre"uency of each genotype in this population& AA = 0.684 / AB = 0.286 / BB = 0.03 hat is the fre"uency of the A allele& 0.827 hat is the fre"uency of the B allele& 0.173 If the ne-t generation contained '$)((( individuals) how many individuals would have blood type BB) assuming the population is in .ardy/einberg e"uilibrium& 750 3. A population of birds contains 1* animals with red tail feathers and #, animals with blue tail feathers. Blue tail feathers are the dominant trait. hat is the fre"uency of the red allele& 0.566 hat is the fre"uency of the blue allele& 0.434 hat is the fre"uency of hetero%ygotes& 0.49 hat is the fre"uency of birds homo%ygous for the blue allele& 0.188 4. Brown hair (B) is dominant to blond hair (b). If there are 1*+ brown haired people in a population of '((0 hat is the predicted fre"uency of hetero%ygotes& 0.48 hat is the predicted fre"uency of homo%ygous dominant& 0.36 hat is the predicted fre"uency of homo%ygous recessive& 0.16 5. If 1+ out of '(( individuals in a population e-press the recessive phenotype) what percent of the population are hetero%ygotes& 42% 6. 2ourant et al. (113*) cite data on ,(( Bas"ues from 4pain) of which '#( were 5h6 and 13( were 5h/. 7alculate the allele fre"uencies of D and d (DD individuals have the 5h6 phenotype. dd individuals have the 5h/ phenotype. !he phenotype of Dd is 5h6). Frequency of D = 0.348 / Frequency of d = 0.652 .ow many of the 5h6 individuals would be e-pected to be hetero%ygous& 181 7. !he I A 8allele8 for the AB9 blood groups actually consists of two subtypes) I A1 and I A' ) either being considered 8I A 8. In 7aucasians) about #:, of the IA alelles are I A1 and Bio II DiGennaro 1:, are I A' (7avalli/4for%a and ;dwards) 11*3). hat would be the e-pected proportions of I A1 I A1 ) I A1 I A' ) and I A' I A' among I A I A individuals& I A1 I A1 = 0.563 / I A1 I A2 = 0.063 / I A2 I A2 = 0.375 8. 1 in 13(( <4 7aucasian newborns have cystic fibrosis. 7 is the normal allele) dominant over the recessive c. Individuals must be homo%ygous for the recessive allele to have the disease. hat percent of the above population have cystic fibrosis (cc or " ' )& 0.059% Assuming a .ardy/einberg ;"uilibrium) how many newborns would have cystic fibrosis in a population of 1()((( people& 5.9 9. !he ability to taste =!7 is due to a single dominate allele 8!8. >ou sampled '1$ individuals in a biology class) and determined that 1$( could detect the bitter taste of =!7 and *$ could not. hat is the predicted fre"uency of the recessive allele (t)& 0.55 hat is the predicted fre"uency of dominant allele (!)& 0.45 In a population of 1()((( people) how many would be hetero%ygous (assuming .ardy/einberg e"uilibrium)& .omo%ygous dominant& .omo%ygous recessive& 7alculate all of the potential fre"uencies. TT = .203 / T = .495 / = .302 10. 4ic?le/cell anemia is an interesting genetic disease. @ormal homo%ygous individials (44) have normal blood cells that are easily infected with the malarial parasite. !hus) many of these individuals become very ill from the parasite and many die. Individuals homo%ygous for the sic?le/cell trait (ss) have red blood cells that readily collapse when deo-ygenated. Although malaria cannot grow in these red blood cells) individuals often die because of the genetic defect. .owever) individuals with the hetero%ygous condition (4s) have some sic?ling of red blood cells) but generally not enough to cause mortality. In addition) malaria cannot survive well within these 8partially defective8 red blood cells. !hus) hetero%ygotes tend to survive better than either of the homo%ygous conditions. If 1A of an African population is born with a severe form of sic?le/cell anemia (ss)) what percentage of the population will be more resistant to malaria because they are hetero%ygous (4s) for the sic?le/cell gene& 42% 11. !he trait for Bmale/pattern baldnessB is a recessive trait encoded for by 8b8. @on/ balding is encoded for by a dominant allele encoded for by the letter 8B8. A street survey conducted by .air 7lub for 2en found that out of 1((( men) #*( had male pattern baldness) the other ,+( who did not and were hetero%ygous) and 1*( who did not and were homo%ygous for a full head of hair. hat are the phenotype ratios& B!"dne## $ %!&r = 360 $ 640 <sing this information find the allele fre"uencies for B and b. B = 0.4 / ' = 0.6 hat are the e-pected genotype fre"uencies& BB = 0.16 / B' = 0.48 / '' = 0.36