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The ability of certain people to taste the chemical phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) is governed by a dominant allele T, and the inability to taste PTC by its recessive allele t. If 24% of a population is homozygous taster and 40% is heterozygous taster, what is the frequency of t?

A

0.3

B

0.9

C

0.4

D

0.6

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