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19 January, 00:17

In a large experimental Drosophila population, the relative fitness of a recessive phenotype is calculated to be 0.90, and the mutation rate to the recessive allele is 5 x 10^-5. If the population is allowed to come to equilibrium, what allele frequencies can be predicted?

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