A fruit fly population has a gene with two alleles, A1 and A2. Tests show that 70% of the gametes produced in the population contain the A1 allele. If the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what proportion of the flies carries both A1 and A2?

• 0.21
• 0.42
• None of these
• 0.49

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