Important Terms

genetic rescue

Mendelian population

gene pool

genotypic frequency

allelic frequency

Hardy–Weinberg law

Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium

positive assortative mating

negative assortative mating

inbreeding

outcrossing

inbreeding coefficient

inbreeding depression

equilibrium

migration (gene flow)

sampling error

genetic drift

effective population size

founder effect

genetic bottleneck

fixation

fitness

selection coefficient

directional selection

overdominance

underdominance

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