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Persons carrying the dominant gene(s) can taste a particular chemical and are called tasters. The others are nontasters. In a large random-mating human population at the hardy-weinberg equilibrium. There are 36% non-tasters and 64% tasters. The frequency of heterozygotes in the populations is

A

0.06

B

0.08

C

0.32

D

0.48

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