The gene pool is the set of all genes, or genetic information, in any population, usually of a particular species. A large gene pool indicates extensive...

called a genotype, that is specific to every given individual, within the gene pool of the population of a given species. The genotype, along with environmental...

Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. Raphael Lemkin, who first...

types of regulatory RNAs. It also includes promoters and their associated gene-regulatory elements, DNA playing structural and replicatory roles, such as...

dispersal resulting in gene flow may also result in the addition of novel genetic variants under positive selection to the gene pool of a species or population...

supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool by dying or becoming sterilized by their own actions. The project became...

present in a given human population. The term is analogous to gene pool. The meme pool is in essence the matrix of the whole of the culture of a population...

populations. The population of the Carpathian Basin has the common European gene-pool which formed in the Bronze Age through the admixture of three sources:...

variation in the gene pool of a population; thereafter, a smaller population, with a smaller genetic diversity, remains to pass on genes to future generations...

abundant ones; interbreeding can swamp the rarer gene pool and create hybrids, depleting the purebred gene pool (for example, the endangered wild water buffalo...