Answer to Question #212399 in Genetics for MOHAMAD NORASREY B

Question

a.      A recessive allele for green eye (g) has a frequency of 0.25 in population Y and a frequency of 0.025 in population Z. A food shortage in population Y causes a number of people in population Y to migrate to population Z, where they reproduce randomly with the members of population Z. Geneticists estimate that after migration, 25% of the people in population Z consist of people who migrated from population Y.

 

i.        Determine the frequency of green eye in population Z after the migration by showing its calculation.

Answer 1

0.25 × 0.025 = 0.000625

= 0.000625/0.25

= 0.0025