Calculate the mutation rate - mutations back to type l are


A population of 1600 adults, all homozygous for the L gene, live in a valley below a leaky nuclear power reactor. After three generations, the allele frequency of the L gene declined to 0.84 as a result of mutations to an alternate form (there has been no selective force operating on this locus).

Using this information, calculate the mutation rate.

Mutations back to type L are also occurring, at the rate of .14. At what frequency of the two alleles will equilibrium eventually occur?

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