In recessive lethal diseases such as Tay-Sachs disease, carriers have one copy of the normal allele and one copy of the allele for the disease. Carriers are represented in the Hardy-Weinberg formula by ________.

A. 2pq
B. 1 - q
C. the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
D. the frequency of homozygous dominants plus frequency of heterzygotes plus the frequency of homozygous recessives


A. 2pq

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