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%
b. 16%
c. 48%
d. 88%
e. 4%


ANSWER: a

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