Question

Michelle, a zookeeper, was collecting data on rabbits. She found that in a population of 1000 rabbits, 360 had long ears (L1), 150 had medium ears (L1), and 490 had short ears (II) at a given time.

Calculate the frequency of rabbits with heterozygous traits.

Answer 1

Number of Heterozygous Rabbits: From the data, 150 rabbits have medium ears (L1).

Frequency Calculation: Frequency is the proportion of heterozygous individuals in the total population.

Frequency of heterozygous rabbits = Number of Ll + Total population

= 150 + 1,000

= 0.15 (or 15%)