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38. In a different system with dominant and recessive alleles (A > a), assume that Hardy-Weinberg...

38. In a different system with dominant and recessive alleles (A > a), assume that Hardy-Weinberg holds. You find that the frequency of the dominant phenotype = 0.640. What is the frequency of the recessive allele?

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