you have sampled a population in which you know that the percentage of the homozygous recessive genotype is 36% using that 36% calculate the following the frequency of a Allele
To calculate the frequency of the allele, we need to use the Hardy-Weinberg equation, which states that the frequency of alleles in a population remains constant from generation to generation, assuming no outside forces are acting on the population.
Let's assume that the frequency of the homozygous recessive genotype (aa) is 36%. Since the homozygous recessive genotype consists of two recessive alleles (a), we can assume that the frequency of the aa genotype is equal to the squared frequency of the recessive allele (a).
So, if the frequency of the aa genotype is 36%, then the frequency of the recessive allele (a) can be calculated as follows:
Frequency of aa genotype = p^2 = 0.36
Frequency of a = √(0.36) = 0.6
Therefore, the frequency of the allele (a) in the population is 0.6 or 60%.