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Help with Hardy Weinberg equation + frequency of alleles

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Hey guys, the question in the pic is about finding the total frequency of recessive alleles (from homozygous recessive but also half of heterozygous) and I have the correct numbers for both of those however I don't get how you then find the total frequency. I just added the numbers up but the answer is wrong so I'm very confused?

If you don't understand anything in the pic please ask I would love any help you can give me!

Thanks 💖
Original post by moonswooning
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Hey guys, the question in the pic is about finding the total frequency of recessive alleles (from homozygous recessive but also half of heterozygous) and I have the correct numbers for both of those however I don't get how you then find the total frequency. I just added the numbers up but the answer is wrong so I'm very confused?

If you don't understand anything in the pic please ask I would love any help you can give me!

Thanks 💖


Do you have access to the original question as this just seems to be the answer?

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Original post by wolfmoon88
Do you have access to the original question as this just seems to be the answer?

It's question 4.13

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Original post by moonswooning
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The answer should be frequency of homozygous recessive plus 1/2 frequency of heterozygous so if that's what you did you should be right

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Original post by wolfmoon88
The answer should be frequency of homozygous recessive plus 1/2 frequency of heterozygous so if that's what you did you should be right

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Hmm okay hopefully the text book answers are wrong then, sometimes they are so 🤞thanks for helping out
Original post by moonswooning
Hmm okay hopefully the text book answers are wrong then, sometimes they are so 🤞thanks for helping out


No problem, I hope so too. Good luck on the rest of the problems :smile:

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