Imagine you are studying a population of plants and you have determined that they are all genetic clones of one another. You are interested in a particular gene found in the population that you have named LLT (low-light tolerance), that allows it to live in shady areas.

What is the frequency of this allele in the population you study?

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Laurel Jacobson

9 October, 17:11

Imagine you are studying a population of plants and you have determined that they are all genetic clones of one another. You are interested in a particular gene found in the population that you have named LLT (low-light tolerance), that allows it to live in shady areas.

What is the frequency of this allele in the population you study?

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Ivy Preston · Answer 1

The frequency of the allele is high in the population

Explanation:

The selective pressure in this population is low light. Thus only plants with high tolerance for low light will be able to survive in this population. LLT gene plant has this trait.

Therefore the LLT gene plants will have higher rate of survival compare to other clones at very low light intensity.

The frequency of expression of these gene will be high due to high survival rates in the population.