Genetic Drift Definition

noun
Variation in gene frequencies in a population due to chance rather than natural selection, mutation, or immigration.
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In evolution,
Webster's New World

(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.

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Noun

Singular:
genetic drift
Plural:
genetic-drifts

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