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In humans, blue eye colour (B) is completely dominant to brown eye colour (b). In a...

In humans, blue eye colour (B) is completely dominant to brown eye colour (b). In a certain population, the following data was gathered:

-Blue eyes, 68 ; brown eyes, 32

What are the frequencies of the two alleles? Is it possible, in theory, to determine whether this population is in a Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium from the data given alone? (Hint: how many heterozygotes are among the blue eyed individuals?)

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