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A gene exists as two alleles in a population of freely mating individuals. if 40% of the population carries the recessive allele (a for the gene, what percentage of the population has the homozygous recessive
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A gene exists as two alleles in a population of freely mating individuals. if 40% of the population carries the recessive allele (a for the gene, what percentage of the population has the homozygous recessive aa genotype?

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It should be 16% for the recessive aa genotype. 
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