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ZoologyOrganisms and PopulationsOrganism and Its EnvironmentEasy2 minPYQ_2018

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In a population of 1000 individuals, 360 belong to genotype AA, 480 to $Aa$ and the remaining 160 to aa. Based on this data, the frequency of allele $A$ in the population is

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(c) : According to Hardy Weinberg principle $p^{2} + 2 pq + q^{2} = 1; (p + q)^{2} = 1$ (AA) $p^{2} = 360$ out of 1000 individuals or $p^{2} = 0.36$ Therefore, $p = 0.6$ .

Stream:AIIMSSubject:ZoologyTopic:Organisms and PopulationsSubtopic:Organism and Its Environment

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