Question 53

(Multiple Choice)

Under what circumstance might measuring the frequency of homozygous recessive genotypes lead to erroneous predictions of allele frequencies in a population?


A) The population is under Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
B) The population is affected by heterozygote advantage.
C) The population has undergone genetic drift in the past.
D) The population is affected by homozygote advantage.

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