WorksheetsPopulation Genetics and Selection
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 1hrs 8mins
In a Hardy-Weinberg population, the frequency of the a allele is 0.4. What is the frequency of individuals with Aa genotype?
0.16
0.48
0.20
0.60
A butterfly population has a rare homozygous recessive form hh that occurs at a frequency of 0.04.
The population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for the trait.
What is the frequency of the homozygous dominant form?
0.02
0.98
0.64
0.32
In a population that is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, the frequency of the homozygous recessive genotype is 0.09. What is the frequency of individuals that are homozygous for the dominant allele?
0.7
0.42
0.21
0.49
The frequency of a dominant allele is 0.6. What is the frequency of its recessive allele?
0.3
0.12
0.4
0.16
Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Albinism is a hereditary disease due to the absence of the skin pigment melanin. The allele for albinism is recessive to the allele for normal pigmentation. One person in 10,000 is an albino.
What is the frequency of the dominant allele?
0.01
0.10
0.09
0.99
Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Albinism is a hereditary disease due to the absence of the skin pigment melanin. The allele for albinism is recessive to the allele for normal pigmentation. One person in 10,000 is an albino.
What is the frequency of the dominant allele?
0.01
0.10
0.09
0.99
Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Albinism is a hereditary disease due to the absence of the skin pigment melanin. The allele for albinism is recessive to the allele for normal pigmentation. One person in 10,000 is an albino.
What is the frequency of carrier?
0.02
0.20
0.32
0.48
Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Albinism is a hereditary disease due to the absence of the skin pigment melanin. The allele for albinism is recessive to the allele for normal pigmentation. One person in 10,000 is an albino.
What is the number of individuals in this population who are carriers?
100
200
150
250
In a population in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, 16% of the individuals show the recessive trait. What is the frequency of the dominant allele in the population?
0.36
0.4
0.6
0.84
In a type of mammal, genes for the albino is recessive to the brown hair genes. In an investigation, it was found that 72 out of 500 mammals are albino. What is the albino allele frequency in that population?
0.75
0.50
0.38
0.29
In a population of cows at genetic equilibrium, 750 cows have long horns (dominant trait), while remaining 250 cows have short horns (recessive traits). What is the frequency of dominant allele?
0.25
0.5
0.67
0.75
In a population of cows at genetic equilibrium, 1500 cows have dominant grey coat, while the remaining 500 cows have recessive white coat. If all the white coat cows were sold and the remaining cows were left to breed randomly, what is the number of white coat cows in the next generation of 1000 cows?
109
250
442
500
