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  1. Keedeon's Avatar
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    a few bio questions
    1) In a population in which 1% of people exhibit sickle cell anemia, what percentage of the population are carriers only for the disease?
    A. 81%
    B. 1%
    C. 18%
    D. 99%

    2) In a population's gene pool, two alleles exist for a trait. C, the dominant allele, constitutes 60% of the gene pool. Homozygous dominant individuals constitute what percentage of the population?
    A. 0.6%
    B. 52%
    C. 36%
    D. 24%

    3) What proportion of the gametes in this population contain gene c?
    A. 0.16%
    B. 24%
    C. 40%
    D. 48%



    I think the first two are both C.. but I have no clue about the third one,
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