What is the selection coefficient

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In Rumbunnies, eggs and sperm carrying the Kef gene have a fitness that is only 75% that of the wild-type allele. Assume the frequency of Kef is q=.8

A) what is the selection coefficient?
B) what is the frequency of q1?

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