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How come p=0.2 only represents dominant phenotype in males? How about p allele in females? Doesn’t P= 0.2 represents p allele in both males and females in the population?
*23.9 A trait determined by an X-linked dominant allele shows 100 percent penetrance and is expressed in 36 percent of the females in a population. Assuming that the population is in Hardy- Weinberg equilibrium, what proportion of the males in this population express the trait? ANS: In females, the frequency of the dominant phenotype is 0.36. The frequency of the recessive phenotype is 0.64- therefore p 0.2 thus, g 0.8 and p 0.2. The frequency of the dominant phenotype in males is
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