Question

Tired of collecting data at night, you decide to switch to a project studying whether pesticide-resistance genes from GMO crops are being spread among neighboring farms by pollinators. On Farm X, all of the corn plants are heterozygous at the pesticide resistant gene (genotype Aa). The "A" allele is dominant and confers resistance to pesticide. All of the corn plants planted on Farm Yare homozygous for aa (i.e. they have no copies of the A allele). If you know that 18% of the pollinators that fertilize corn plants on Farm Y bring pollen from Farm X, do you expect the frequency of the A allele to be higher at Farm Y at the end of the growing season?

Answer 1

No, the frequency of 'A' allele will remain lower in farm Y,

Will be seen as Aa : aa = 9 : 81

Please refer the reason the image attached

A - Dominant pesticide resistant Allele a - Recessive pesticide resistont Allele Form X Farmy Aa aa Heterozygous Homozygous Only 18 t. of Farmy is fertilised by farm X pollen & On crossing 18% " ace with "Aa' A Aa Aa Here. Aniaa = 1:1 that means Out of 18% of form al plants will have to alleles So On formy, Aa: ace= 9:91)