Free Flashcard From Biology I Chapter 23
Question:
In the year 2500, five male space colonists and five female space
colonists (all unrelated to each other) settle on an uninhabited
Earthlike planet in the Andromeda galaxy. The colonists and their
offspring randomly mate for generations. All ten of the original
colonists had free earlobes, and two were heterozygous for that trait.
The allele for free earlobes is dominant to the allele for attached
earlobes. Which of these is closest to the allele frequency in the
founding population? A) 0.1 a, 0.9 A B) 0.2 a, 0.8 A C) 0.5 a, 0.5 AD) 0.8 a, 0.2 A E) 0.4 a, 0.6 A
Answer:
A