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Adaptive Evolution |
Increase in frequency of beneficial alleles and decrease in deleterious alleles due to selection. |
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Allele Frequency |
(Gene frequency) Rate at which a specific allele appears within a population. |
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Assortative Meaning |
When individuals tend to mate with those who are phenotypically similar to themselves. |
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Bottleneck Effect |
Magnification of genetic drift as a result of natural events or catastrophes. |
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Cline |
Gradual geographic variation across an ecological gradient. |
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Directional selection |
Selection that favors phenotypes at one end of the spectrum of existing variation. |
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Diversifying Selection |
Selection that favors two or more distinct phenotypes. |
