Problem
Deer Bambi and his cousin Faline successfully raised a family and later they grew to a large population living in the woods. Of the 100 fawns in this population, 72 have brown eyes and 28 have blue eyes. A dominant allele R confers brown eye colour and a recessive allele r confers blue eye color. Assuming Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium is operating, answer the following questions.
i. What is the frequency of the brown allele R?
ii. What if the frequency of the blue allele r?
iii. How many fawns are heterozygotes (Rr)?
iv. How many fawns are homozygous recessive (rr)?
v. How many fawns are homozygous dominant (RR)?