In a population of fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, there are several alleles that code for eye colour.
In one particular population there are four alleles, red, white, cherry and apricot.
The table below shows the allele frequencies of each of the alleles in this population.
Some of the data is missing.
Allele type |
Frequency |
red |
0.44 |
white |
0.25 |
cherry |
|
apricot |
0.18 |
Which of the following statements is a correct conclusion that can be made from this data?
The red eye colour allele is dominant to the rest of the eye colour alleles
The apricot eye colour allele is the least common allele in the population
Most of the fruit flies in this population show the red eye phenotype
The phenotype frequencies are totally unknown