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Modern Genetic Analysis Chapter 17. Population and Evolutionary Genetics
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4. | In a large experimental Drosophila population, the fitness of a recessive phenotype is calculated to be 0.90, and the mutation rate to the recessive allele is 5 × 105. If the population is allowed to come to equilibrium, what allelic frequencies can be predicted? See answer

| Solution Here mutation and selection are working in opposite directions, so an equilibrium is predicted. Such an equilibrium is described by the formula In the present question, µ = 5 × 105 ands = 1 W = 1 0.9 = 0.1. Hence See question

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