BRAINCAKEPopulation Genetics
Population genetics is the study of the genetic make-up of populations and how it changes over time. It links Mendel's inheritance in individuals to evolution in populations.
A population is a group of organisms of the same species living in the same place at the same time, which can interbreed with one another.
The gene pool is the total of all the alleles of all the genes in a population at a particular time. Each individual carries only two alleles of each gene, but the population as a whole can carry many alleles for a gene, in different proportions.
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