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Paraquat is a general herbicide that kills most types of plants. in a population of ferns, it was found that 40% of the gametophytes showed resistance to paraquat (resistance is caused by a recessive allele). what is the expected frequency of resistant sporophytes in this population?\

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I'm not 100% sure but i think the frequency be 2 resistant out of every 5 plants
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