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The trait "vestigial wings" in the fruit fly drosophila results from a recessive mutation, vg- . assuming that the population is in hardy-weinberg equilibrium, what is the frequency of heterozygotes (vg+ /vg- ) in a population whose frequency of vestigial winged flies is 1 in 10,000?

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The answer is 0.0001 +0.0198+0.9801 = 1

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