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7. Assume there are two populations of house mice living inadjacent farms. They differ in the allelic frequency of therecessive albino mutation. In population 1 the frequency is 0.3 andin population 2 it is 0.6. Now assume that the harvest is better inbarn 1, so that mice from population 2 migrate into population 1.The proportion of immigrants is 0.2. a. What is the change isallelic frequency for the albino gene in the new population of farm1? b. If migration continues at this rate for many generation willthe frequency of the alleles reach and equilibrium and if so whatis the equilibrium frequency?

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