Texts: 1) In a population of hares, an allele W, for white pelage (fur), is dominant over allele w, for darker pelage. In a sample of 900 hares, 891 are white and 9 are darker.

1. What are the expected allele frequencies for W and w when assuming that the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?
2. b) You go out into the population and genotype those 900 individuals. 559 are WW, 332 are Ww, and 9 are ww. What are the observed genotype frequencies?
3. c) What are the observed allele frequencies for this population?
4. Is this population of hares in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?

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