genetic pool

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• Genetic pollution — is undesirable gene flow into wild populations. The term is usually associated with the gene flow from a genetically engineered (GE) organism (or genetically modifed organism GMO) to a non GE organism; [… …   Wikipedia

• Genetic erosion — is a process whereby an already limited gene pool of an endangered species of plant or animal diminishes even more when individuals from the surviving population die off without getting a chance to meet and breed with others in their endangered… …   Wikipedia

• Genetic algorithm in economics — Genetic algorithms are used to model the learning behaviour of economic agents. The term genetic algorithm is often abbreviated as GA. The genetic algorithm is a particular class of evolutionary algorithm inspired by evolutionary biology. A… …   Wikipedia

• Genetic engineering — Genetic engineering, recombinant DNA technology, genetic modification/manipulation (GM) and gene splicing are terms that apply to the direct manipulation of an organism s genes. [cite web url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Genetic%20engine… …   Wikipedia

• Genetic hitchhiking — is the process by which an evolutionarily neutral or in some cases deleterious allele or mutation may spread through the gene pool by virtue of being linked to a beneficial mutation. More generally, genetic hitchhiking can refer to the process by …   Wikipedia

• genetic load — (= genetic burden) In general terms the decrease in fitness of a population (as a result of selection acting on phenotypes) due to deleterious mutations in the population gene pool. More specifically, the average number of recessive lethal… …   Dictionary of molecular biology

• genetic load — n the decrease in fitness of the average individual in a population due to the presence of deleterious genes or genotypes in the gene pool * * * 1. the sum of the deleterious genes in a genome. 2. the relative difference between the mean fitness… …   Medical dictionary

• GENETIC ANCESTRY, JEWISH — Background The human genome refers to approximately three billion chemical letters (nucleotides) comprising the sequence of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in almost every cell of each human being. There are four different nucleotides (adenine,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Genetic history of the British Isles — Population research using DNA is initiating research into the genetic history of the British Isles. Genetically, the population native to the British Isles is closely associated with the larger region of Western Europe, and in particular with the …   Wikipedia

• Genetic algorithm — A genetic algorithm (GA) is a search heuristic that mimics the process of natural evolution. This heuristic is routinely used to generate useful solutions to optimization and search problems. Genetic algorithms belong to the larger class of… …   Wikipedia

• Genetic history of Europe — European populations have a complicated demographic and genetic history, including many layers of successive migrations between different time periods, from the first appearance of Homo sapiens in the Upper Paleolithic to contemporary immigration …   Wikipedia