genetic drift
Noun
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Noun
genetic drift
- (genetics, evolutionary theory) An overall shift of allele distribution in an isolated population, due to random fluctuations in the frequencies of individual alleles of the genes.
- French: dérive génétique
- Italian: deriva genetica
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