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BALANCED POLYMORPHISM [1 record]

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Record 1 2024-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
CONT

Balanced polymorphism is the maintenance of genes in a population because of a balance between the damage they cause to individuals in homozygous forms and the benefit they confer on carriers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
CONT

Il existe une relative opposition entre la protection qu'offre l'état hétérozygote et les problèmes liés à l'état homozygote. La fréquence génique dans une population est finalement le produit de l'avantage chez l'hétérozygote et de la mortalité/morbidité chez l'homozygote. C'est ce qu'on a appelé le polymorphisme équilibré.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Genética
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