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If selection favours the dominant allele and mutation is creating recessive alleles at a rate of 0.006 per generation in balance with the rate at which selection is eliminating them, if the frequency of the recessive allele is 0.03 what is the rate of selection in this balanced state (round to the nearest 0.001)?

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Hardy Weinberg equilibrum. frequency of recessive allele S frequency dominant nt allele p - 1-9 1-.03 2:07 pa + 209+ 92-1 Cox

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