Question

Scenario I In the year 2100, humans successfully colonized the Moon.The lunar modules that were created could only house a small population of people. It is now a century later, and the population has grown to 3,000 people. In the current Moon population, 20 people express the recessive phenotype for cystic fibrosis (cc genotype).

Hardy Weinberg problem ...

Answer 1

Answer: 0.147

Step-by-step explanation:

Using Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

q2 – 20/3000 = 0.0066

q – √0.0066 = 0.08

p – 1- 0.08 = 0.92

P² = 0.8464

2pq – 2 x (0.92) x (0.08) = 0.147