A large population of fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster

Last updated: 5/25/2023

A large population of fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster has been allowed to breed randomly for a number of generations After several generations 4 of the animals display curly wings a recessive trait aa the same percentage as at the beginning of the breeding program The rest of the flies show the dominant phenotype wildtype normal wings with heterozygotes indistinguishable from the homozygous dominants What is the estimated frequency of allele a in the gene pool 0 02 0 2 O 0 8 0 08 0 04 0 4