Question

The frequency of a particular lethal recessive allele in a population is 0.02. Given this information, calculate the percentage of individuals who are carriers of the lethal recessive allele.

Answer 1

Answer:

approximately 4%

Explanation:

Given,  frequency of recessive allele (p )= 0.02

so, the frequency of dominant allele is (q )= 1-p

so q = 1-p

 p = 0.02

 q = 1- 0.02

 q = 0.98

Once we know p and q, which factor of the Hardy-Weinberg equation. we can calculate percentage of individuals who are carriers of lethal recessive allele.

so

Result : percentage of individuals who are carriers of the lethal recessive allele is  4%.