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| What does polygenic mean? |
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Definition
| Phenotype influenced by more than one gene |
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| What does polymorphic mean? |
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Definition
| Clear allele to phenotype association |
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| What is allozyme polymorphism? |
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Definition
| Different alleles cause different forms of enzymes |
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| What is the selection co-efficient? |
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Definition
s-1
how much less fit the other allele is |
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| Why are recessive alleles slow to rise to fixation? |
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Definition
| Requires homozygotes for the effect to be seen |
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| How do you find the Ne of a variable population? |
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Definition
The harmonic mean
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(1/a)+(1/b)+(1/c) |
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| What is narrow sense heritability used for? |
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Definition
| Predict success of selection elements |
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| What is the selection differential, S? |
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Definition
| Difference between mean of selected and mean of rest of population |
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| What is the response to selection, R? |
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Definition
| mean of pop in gen1 - mean of pop in gen 0 |
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| How can narrow sense heritability be estimated? |
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Definition
| Measuring correlation between relatives |
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Definition
| Mean squared deviation from the mean for the environment |
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Definition
| mean squared deviation from the genotype |
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| percentage of all deviants from the mean squared |
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