Question

G in the beetles described in the animation, there were two alleles for color, brown and green. suppose that you discover a very small population of these beetles, consisting of the individuals shown below. how can you calculate the frequency of each allele in this population?

Answer 1

Answer:count the number of brown alleles and divide by the total number of alleles in the population (8 brown alleles, 20 total alleles in population, .4 frequency of brown, .6 frequency of green)

Explanation: it’s asking for the brown allele frequency