In an isolated population of 50 desert bighorn sheep, a mutant recessive allele c when homozygous causes curled coats in both males and females. The normal dominant allele C produces straight coats. A biologist studying these sheep counts four with curled coats. She also takes blood samples from the population for DNA analysis, which reveals that 17 of the sheep are heterozygous carriers of the c allele. What is the inbreeding coefficient F for this population?

Everyone. Here, we have a question saying the probability that two alleles are identical by descent and an individual is termed, and this has termed inbreeding coefficient. And it is a measure of probability that two alleles at any given locus in an individual are identical by descent. This means there are copies of the same ancestral will. So the probability that an individual inherits two copies of the same a little from a common ancestor rather than two different ancestors. This ranges from zero zero, meaning it is completely outbreak and one meaning that it is completely inbred with both alleles at every locust being identical by descent. So our answer here is c inbreeding coefficient. Thank you for watching. Bye.