A population of capelin, a small forage fish, in the Arctic ocean displays two types of...

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A population of capelin, a small forage fish, in the Arcticocean displays two types of colors, black and olive green. Incapelin, olive-green is dominant to black. A marine biologistnotices changes in the Arctic population after some capelin from aNorth Atlantic population migrated to the Arctic ocean. Before themigration event, the allele frequency of the black color allele was0.34 in the Arctic population. After the migration event, thefrequency was 0.38. The marine biologist was able to determine thatthe frequency of the black allele in the North Atlantic populationwas 0.53. What proportion of individuals currently in the Arcticpopulation migrated from the North Atlantic population in order tocause the change in allele frequency?

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