Question

Early world explorers would bring live animals along with them on their ships to be able to produce food where they stopped along the way. On a world adventure, Hapless Harry the Lost landed on a small island in the Pacific Ocean with 8 boars (male pigs) and 3 sows (female pigs). He discovers he's not the the first one there and there are 58 pigs already on the island. Harry's pigs have an allele frequency of 0.23. The native pigs have an allele frequency of 0.64. What is the new frequency of this allele on the island (to two decimal places and round to the nearest 0.01)?

Answer 1

Alleles are a variant form of a gene that are located at the same position on a chromosome. An allele frequency is calculated by dividing the number of times that allele is observed in a population by the total number of copies of all the genes in the population.