Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Instructions - Allele frequency questions

 When the allele frequency type of question comes up, you'll be given the number of each genotype and use that information to calculate either the frequency of the dominant allele (p) or the recessive allele (q). See the introduction section of this website to see how to perform those calculations. For the multiple-choice questions, the app displays the number to three decimal places, so there may be some variation in your numbers if you used more or fewer. However, the results should be close enough to pick the correct choice. Also note, the answers are in random order, so you should check all the answers because it is possible to have more than one answer that is close to the correct one. For this type of question there will always be five options. If there are multiple options with the same value, you can choose any one of them - if it is the correct answer, you will receive credit regardless of which one you selected. For the fill-in question, you won't have any guidance on what the possible answer is, so you'll want to make sure your calculations are done correctly.

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