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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Variation in gene frequencies in a population due to chance rather than natural selection, mutation, or immigration.
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- noun genetics, evolutionary theory An overall shift of
allele distribution in anisolated population , due torandom fluctuations in thefrequencies of individual alleles of the genes.
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