Suppose a Population of Flour Beetles Has 1,000 Individuals

Multiple Choice

Suppose a population of flour beetles has 1,000 individuals.Normally the beetles are red; however, this population is polymorphic for a mutant autosomal body color, black, designated by bb.Red is dominant to black, so BB and Bb genotypes result in red beetles.Assume the population is at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, with equal frequencies of the two alleles.What would be the expected frequencies of the red and black phenotypes?

A) 0.5 red and 0.5 black
B) 0.75 red and 0.25 black
C) 0.25 red and 0.75 black
D) All red
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