Answer to Question #41316 in Biology for qwerty

Question #41316
The existence within a population of nonbeneficial allele in heterozygous genotype is :-
(1) genetic drift
(2) genetic flow
(3) selection
(4) genetic load
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Expert's answer
2014-04-15T02:30:29-0400
The concept of genetic load comes from Haldane (1949) and Muller (1950). It attempts to put some objectivity into the idea that populations have a mixture of genotypes, some of which are 'better' than others. To the extent that there is a 'best' genotype, any genotypes other than the best will be part of the genetic load in the population. Thus, the correct answer is 4

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16.04.14, 21:15

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sanjeev
15.04.14, 18:29

Thanks a lot.

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