Genetic Polymorphism At Biology Glossary

What is it? The occurrence together in the same population of more than one allele or genetic marker at the same locus with the least frequent allele or marker occurring more frequently than can be accounted for by mutation alone.

Bio Definition Added By: Ava

Send To Friends!

If you'd like to send the Genetic Polymorphism definition to yourself or to your friends/colleagues, just enter the e-mail addresses in the boxes below -

We hope you now understand the meaning of Genetic Polymorphism. If you need any more information on this term, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Other Similar Biology Terms:

Bio Term cyanobacteria is a large and varied group of bacteria which possess chlorophyll a and which carry out photosynthesis in the presence of light and air with concomitant production of oxygen.

Bio Term allele frequency is Often called gene frequency. A measure of how common an allele is in a population; the proportion of all alleles at one gene locus that are of one specific type in a population.

Bio Term U is uracil or uridine.

Bio Term cosmid is A hybrid plasmid that contains cos sites at each end. Cos sites are recognized during head filling of lambda phages. Cosmids are useful for cloning large segments of foreign DNA (up to 50 kb).

Bio Term arterial system is Blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to tissues from the heart , forming part of the blood circulatory system.