Answer to Question #223064 in Microbiology for Mussie Tesfamariam

Question

A certain population of hamsters, 300 out of 1600 hamsters demonstrate a recessive purple coat colour( the dominant coat colour is pink). This hamsters breed and the following generations, 375 out of 2000 has a purple coat colour.

A. What is the homozygous recessive genotype frequency in an original population? Show your work

Answer 1

Dominant allele frequency =$1-0.433=0.567$