BRAINCAKEMeasuring Genetic Biodiversity
Genetic diversity is the variety of alleles within a species or population. It can be measured in several ways.
1. Heterozygosity index. Edexcel uses the heterozygosity index, H:
H = number of heterozygotes / number of individuals in the population
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