Biology GCSE
Gene-environment interaction
What Gene-environment interaction means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Gene-environment interaction
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The combined effect of genetic instructions and environmental conditions during development, so the phenotype is not fixed by genes alone.
Topics that use Gene-environment interaction
- Variation (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Combined causation
- Environmental change
- Generation time and rate of evolution
- Genes
- Genetic variation within populations
- Genome
- Mutation
- Mutation as the source of new alleles
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