You are studying a single-gene locus with two alleles in apopulation that is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Examination of alarge sample of individuals from the population reveals there aresix times as many heterozygote as there are homozygote recessiveindividuals in this population. What is the frequency of therecessive allele?

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