#Question id: 3268
#Part-A Aptitude & General Biotechnology
A population of insects is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for a gene with alleles A = orange and a = yellow eyes. There are 91% orange and 9% yellow individuals in the population. If the fitness of the yellow phenotype suddenly drops to zero, what will be the allele frequency in the next generation?
#Question id: 3269
#Part-A Aptitude & General Biotechnology
Two plant species live in the same biome but on different continents. Although the two species are not at all closely related, they may appear quite similar as a result of
#Question id: 3270
#Part-A Aptitude & General Biotechnology
Heterozygote advantage should be most closely linked to which of the following?
#Question id: 3271
#Part-A Aptitude & General Biotechnology
Consider hemophilia A, a clotting disorder caused by an X-linked recessive allele with a frequency (q) of approximately 1 in 10,000. The frequency of the disease among females and among male respectively
#Question id: 3272
#Part-A Aptitude & General Biotechnology
Calculate the frequencies of the XO and X+ alleles respectively for this population.
#Question id: 3273
#Part-A Aptitude & General Biotechnology
The number of forward mutations is equal to the number of reverse mutations then
a) Population is in equilibrium for forward and reverse mutation rates
b) The population is being in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium
c) No further change in allelic frequency