In a population of 100 individuals, the number of homozygous recessives is 4. Let’s assume that you can distinguish the heterozygotes from the homozygous dominants. There are 80 heterozygotes, and 16 homozygous dominants.
b. What is the frequency of each allele?
c. What would you estimate the allele & genotype frequencies to be if you only knew that there were 4 homozygous recessives out of 100 individuals, and you knew nothing else about the population’s structure?