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If a population of 1,000 individuals has 160 rr genotypes, what is the frequency of the rr genotype? Please explain how you got the answer.

If a population of 1,000 individuals has 160 rr genotypes, what is the frequency of the rr genotype? Please explain how you got the answer.
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If a population of 1,000 individuals has 160 rr genotypes, what is the frequency of the rr genotype?

Please explain how you got the answer.

User Pavlo Naumenko
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The frequency of a genotype is how often it occurs. This can be obtained by:
number of occurrences / total population
= 160 / 1000
= 0.16 or 16%
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