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Population Genetics |
study of the distributions and changes of allele frequency in a population |
Study of changes in gene pop. |
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Gene Pool |
the stock of different genes in an interbreeding population. |
amount of genes. |
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Population |
all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country. |
How many things there are in a given area |
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Evolution |
the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth. |
monkeys to humans, etc |
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Polymorphic |
he quality or state of existing in or assuming different forms |
existing as numerous forms |
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Genetic Variation |
refers to diversity in gene frequencies. |
differences between individuals |
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Mutation |
the action or process of mutating. |
example: spiderman, when bit be spider went through.... |
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Genetic Recombination |
is the transmission-genetic process by which the combinations of alleles observed at different loci in two parental individuals become shuffled in offspring individuals. |
When things have multiple different combinations interchanging |
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Hardy-Weinberg model/equation |
that allele and genotype frequencies in a population will remain constant from generation to generation in the absence of other evolutionary influences. |
P^2 +2pq + q^2=1 |
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P |
frequency of dominant allele, N in the population |
part of hardy weinberg model/equation |
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q |
frequency of recessive allele, N in the population |
part of hardy weinberg model/equation |
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p^2 |
How much of the population is homozygous. |
How much of human alleles are homozygous. |
