HARDY-WEINBERG LAW


Meaning of HARDY-WEINBERG LAW in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌhär-dē-ˈwīn-ˌbərg- ]

noun

Etymology: G. H. Hardy died 1947 English mathematician and W. Weinberg died 1937 German physician

Date: 1950

: a fundamental principle of population genetics: population gene frequencies and genotype frequencies remain constant from generation to generation if mating is random and if mutation, selection, immigration, and emigration do not occur — called also Hardy-Weinberg principle

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