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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The collective genetic information contained within a population of sexually reproducing organisms.
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- noun genetics The complete set of
unique alleles that would be found by inspecting thegenetic material of every living member of aspecies orpopulation .
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