Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder in homozygous recessives that causes death during the teenage years

If 9 in 10,000 newborn babies have the disease, what are the expected frequencies of the dominant (A1 ) and recessive (A2 ) alleles according to the Hardy-Weinberg model? A) f(A1 ) = 0.9997, f(A2 ) = 0.0003
B) f(A1 ) = 0.9800, f(A2 ) = 0.0200
C) f(A1 ) = 0.9700, f(A2 ) = 0.0300
D) f(A1 ) = 0.9604, f(A2 ) = 0.0392


C

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