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qid 3023 · biology#
Question: The ability to roll the tongue is conferred by a dominant gene, while its recessive allele fails to confer this ability. If 16 percent of the students in a school cannot roll their tongues, what percentage of students are heterozygous?
- 36 percent
- 32 percent
- 24 percent
- 40 percent
- 20 percent
- 48 percent
- 68 percent
- 16 percent
- 64 percent
- 52 percent
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OpenStax, Biology 2e, Section 19.1 Population Evolution, Figure 19.2 caption (Hardy-Weinberg example)
https://openstax.org/books/biology-2e/pages/19-1-population-evolution
“The dominant capital Y allele results in yellow pea color, and the recessive small y allele results in green pea color.”
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