In the population of 1,000 kangaroo rats shown here, what would you have expected the genotype frequency of Bb if the population was in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?

a) 0.867
b) 0.115
c) 0.231
d) 0.133
e) 1


Ans: c) 0.231

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