Biology GCSE
Susceptibility to disease
What Susceptibility to disease means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Susceptibility to disease
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Being particularly prone to disease, which can occur in some breeds because reduced genetic variation makes a population less able to adapt to new diseases.
Topics that use Susceptibility to disease
- Selective breeding (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Aesthetic and behavioural traits
- Agricultural usefulness
- artificial selection
- Genetic variation within populations
- Human selection over many generations
- Human-directed selection
- Inbreeding
- Repeated artificial selection
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