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What is gene frequency in a population?


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Gene frequency

  1. It refers to how common an allele is in a population.
  2. It is determined by counting how many times the allele appears in the population and then dividing by the total number of copies of the gene.

Factors affecting gene frequency in a population:

  1. Non-random mating
  2. Altered mutation rate
  3. Natural selection
  4. Small population
  5. Migration

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