In an isolated population of fruit flies, 4 percent of the individuals have "pink eyes", a homozygous

recessive condition, and 96 percent have the dominant black eye phenotype. What percentage of the
population are heterozygotes?



a. 32 percent
b. 16 percent
c. 48 percent
d. 88 percent
e. 4 percent


A

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