In a population of 200 individuals at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, 72 are homozygous recessive for the character of eye color (cc).One hundred individuals from this population die from a fatal disease.Thirty-six of the survivors are homozygous recessive.In the new population, the frequency of the dominant allele is
A) 0.16.
B) 0.36.
C) 0.40.
D) 0.48.
E) 0.60.

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The Answer of In a population of 200 individuals at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, 72 are homozygous recessive for the character of eye color (cc).One hundred individuals from this population die from a fatal disease.Thirty-six of the survivors are homozygous recessive.In the new population, the frequency of the dominant allele is
A) 0.16.
B) 0.36.
C) 0.40.
D) 0.48.
E) 0.60.

In a Population of 200 Individuals at Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, 72