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Consider the following scenario. A farmer plants a huge grove of fig trees on their property. A large population of typical fig wasps (like the ones we discussed in class) moves in and starts laying eggs in the ripening figs. A biology student uses protein electrophoresis to examine the frequencies of two neutral alleles (A1 and A2) at some genetic locus in this population 1 generation after the fig wasps move in and again 10 generations after the fig wasps move in. If the population started with the following allele and genotype frequencies, frequency A1 = 0.5, frequency of A2 = 0.5, frequency of A1A1 = 0.25, frequency of A1A2 = 0.5, frequency of A2A2 = 0.25, which of the following results should the student predict will be more likely after 10 generations as a consequence of the effect of typical mating patterns in fig wasps? Select one: a. The requency of either A1 or A2 would drift to 1.0 and there would be no heterogygotes. b. The frequency of A1 and A2 would not change (or not change much), the proportion of heterozygotes would decrease and the proportion of homozygotes would increase. c.The frequency of A1 and A2 would not change (or change much) and all individuals in the population would be heterozygotes. d. The frequency of A1 and A2 would not change (or not change much), the proportion of heterozygotes would increase and the proportion of homozygotes would decrease

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