Thursday, August 11, 2011

What percentage of this population is likely to be white?

The color of a certain species of chicken is programmed by one gene site. There are two alleles for the gene possible: B (the dominant gene, for brown color) and b ( the recessive gene, for white color). The frequency B gene in a population of these chickens is 0.625. What percentage of this population is likely to be white?

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