单词 | hardy-weinberg |
释义 | Hardy-Weinbergn. Genetics. attributive. Designating the principle that, in the absence of mutation and selection, the frequencies of genes and alleles in an interbreeding population of diploid organisms will stay constant over time; relating to, or described by this principle.The Hardy-Weinberg principle applies to an idealized situation of an infinitely large population into or out of which there is no migration, consisting of exclusively diploid, randomly mating individuals whose allele frequencies are the same in both sexes, with no non-sexual reproduction or overlap of generations. ΚΠ 1943 Science 5 Feb. 137/1 (title) The Hardy–Weinberg Law. 1965 Evolution 19 546/1 A preselection stage when the genotypes are in Hardy-Weinberg proportions due to the random mating of their parents. 1972 A. W. F. Edwards Likelihood ii. 19 A population is said to be in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium if the genotype proportions if AA, Aa and aa are θ2: 2(1 - θ: (1 - θ)2, where θ is the frequency of the A gene. 1995 I. Tattersall Fossil Trail (1996) iv. 42 Paradoxically,..just about the first thing a budding paleoanthropologist is taught nowadays in courses on evolutionary change is the so-called Hardy-Weinberg Principle. 2003 R. Dawkins Devil's Chaplain (2004) ii. i. 67 Mendel's work was rediscovered in 1900 and inspired the Hardy-Weinberg Law in 1908. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1943 |
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