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A population of 600 plants contain 294 AA, 252 Aa, and 54 aa individuals. AA and Aa plants produce purple flowers while aa plants produce white flowers. What are the frequencies of the following?

Allele A
Allele a
purple-flowered plants
white flowered plants
genotype AA
genotype Aa
genotype aa

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Answer: If both the AA and Aa individuals have Allele A, then the proportion of individuals with Allele A = (294 + 252)/600. However, if you want the proportion of times that A occurs in the gene pairs, this is ([2*294] + 252)/(2*600).

Proceed in a similar way with the other problems.

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