You sample a population of butterflies and find that 56% are heterozygous at a particular locus. What should be the frequency of the recessive allele in this population?
A) 0.07
B) 0.08
C) 0.09
D) 0.70
E) Allele frequency cannot be determined from this information.

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The frequency of the recessive allele cannot be determined from the percentage of heterozygous individuals alone without additional information about the population's genetic structure or assumptions like Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

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