In the year 2374, humans finally developed the technology necessary for time travel. You are a scientist interested in the popul
ation genetics of extinct animals. After seeing Jurassic World, you decide to go back in time to study a population of velociraptors. The skin color of this dinosaur varies between tan (dominant) and brown (recessive). You observed 336 tan velociraptors and 64 brown velociraptors during your study. Assume the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. a) What is the allelic frequency of the dominant (tan) allele in the population
Belief doesn’t have much role in science, except in the sense that nobody can check everything. But science is a set of methods for establishing knowledge that is as good a match as possible to the world we find ourselves in.
