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Human Blood Type Is Determined by Three Alleles IA, IB

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Human blood type is determined by three alleles IA, IB, and IO. The alleles IA and IB are co-dominant to each other, and both are dominant to IO. Within a large, randomly mating population (540,000 individuals) , the frequencies for the blood type alleles are 0.3 for the IA allele, 0.6 for the IO allele, and 0.1 for the IB allele. What percentage of the type B people are heterozygotes (IBIO) ?


A) 12%
B) 13%
C) 92.3%
D) 6%
E) 60%

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