Combined Science GCSE
Susceptibility to disease
What Susceptibility to disease means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Susceptibility to disease
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Reference: AQA
Breeds may share similar alleles that give poor resistance to disease, so a single pathogen can affect many individuals.
Topics that use Susceptibility to disease
- Selective breeding (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- artificial selection
- Artificial selection by humans
- change in allele frequency over generations
- Desired characteristic
- Inbreeding
- Inheritance of harmful recessive alleles
- Production of true-breeding populations
- Reduced genetic variation
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