Biology A-Level
Allele frequencies
What Allele frequencies means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Allele frequencies
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Reference: OCR
Proportions of the gene pool, where for two alleles p + q = 1, with p the dominant and q the recessive allele frequency.
Topics that use Allele frequencies
- Patterns of inheritance (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Alleles, genotypes and phenotypes
- Autosomal linkage
- Change in allele frequency over generations
- Chi-squared (χ²) test
- continuous variation
- critical value
- Crossing over and independent assortment
- degrees of freedom
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