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Postby Only_Sayuri on Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:41 am

In certain African countries 4% of the newborn babies have sickle-cell anemia, which is a recessive trait. Out of a random population of 1,000 newborn babies, how many would you expect for each of the three possible genotypes?
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Postby mith on Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:48 am

assuming equilibrium, use hardy weinberg
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Postby IluvChocolate on Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:10 pm

did u ever figure out how to do that problem as i know i should use hardy weinberg but i dont know how/what to do with it. can you help me?
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Postby MichaelXY on Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:39 pm

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultran ... nberg.html
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