The frequency of recessive deleterious allele q is 0.09 in a population of fruit flies. You examine many individuals over many g
enerations and measure that the mutation rate of (p) to (q) is 0.0003. What would the strength of selection against the q allele need to be for the frequency of q=0.06 to be maintained by selection-mutation balance?
If student’s data does not support her hypothesis, then the next MAJOR step would be to "<span>change the hypothesis" although more trials should be done first. </span>
