Estimating Risk of Inherited disease Flashcards
1
Q
What is the defintion of fitness in genetics?
A
Relative ability of organisms to survive and pass on genes
2
Q
What is the name given to when alleles do not affect fitness at all?
A
Neutral
3
Q
What can migration result in?
A
Introduction of new alleles
4
Q
Non-random mating leads to the increase of what?
A
Mutant alleles
5
Q
What is genetic drift?
A
Random fluctuation of one allele transmitted to high proportion of offspring by chance
6
Q
What does the founder effect do?
A
Reduces genetic diversity
