Population Biology Honors

In the Hardy-Weinberg Equation, q² is the frequency of what?

• The recessive allele 
• the dominant allele
• the recessive genotype
• the dominant genotype

If 98 out of 200 individuals in a population express the recessive phenotype, what percent of the population would you predict would be heterozygous?

• 70%

• 30%

• 42%

• 49%

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What does the variable q represent?

• Frequency of the heterozygote genotype
• Frequency of the homozygous recessive genotype
• The frequency of the recessive allele
• The frequency of the dominant allele 

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Which Hardy-Weinberg equation represents the genotype frequencies in a population?

• p + q = 1
• p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1
• p2 + pq2 + q2 = 1
• p + 2pq + q3 = 1

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Which Hardy-Weinberg factor represents the frequency of heterozygous individuals in a population?

• p2
• 2pq
• q2
• p2 + 2pq

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A population of frogs has 37 individuals who are brown in color and 194 individuals who express the dominant green color. What is the dominant allele frequency for this population?

• 0.2
• 0.4
• 0.6
• 0.8

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If a population has the following genotype frequencies: AA = 0.42, Aa = 0.46, and aa = 0.12, what are the allele frequencies?

• A = 0.42, a = 0.12
• A = 0.6, a = 0.4
• A = 0.65, a = 0.35
• A = 0.84, a = 0.24

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Within a population of 500 butterflies, the color purple is dominant over the color white. 200 of the butterflies are white. What is the frequency of homozygous dominant individuals? Give your answer as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.

• .40

• .37

• .14

• .60

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What do you call all of the genes in a population?

• Gene pool
• Relative Frequency
• Genetic Drift
• Allele pool

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In a population of bears, the frequency of q is 0.44. What is the frequency of p?

• 0.1936
• 0.44
• 0.56
• 0.22

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