1). Penguins in Stewart Island have a recessive mutation "twist-tail' that causes problems in the control of direction when swimming. In 2008 a survey of a large, freely interbreeding, population of 2,732 penguins revealed 316 with twist-tail phenotype. а) What percentage of the penguin population would you expect to be heterozygous at the twist-tail locus ? Where there is no mutation, migration or selection what percentage of the next generation would be homozygous dominants, heterozygotes and homozygous recessives? b)

1). Penguins in Stewart Island have a recessive mutation "twist-tail' that causes problems in the control of direction when swimming. In 2008 a survey of a large, freely interbreeding, population of 2,732 penguins revealed 316 with twist-tail phenotype. а) What percentage of the penguin population would you expect to be heterozygous at the twist-tail locus ? Where there is no mutation, migration or selection what percentage of the next generation would be homozygous dominants, heterozygotes and homozygous recessives? b)

Biology: The Dynamic Science (MindTap Course List)

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Author:Peter J. Russell, Paul E. Hertz, Beverly McMillan

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Chapter21: Microevolution: Genetic Changes Within Populations

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Problem 1TYK: The reason spontaneous mutations do not have an immediate effect on allele frequencies in a large...

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