balanced polymorphism
Genetics
noun
Genetic polymorphism that persists at a stable level within a population, being maintained by a selective advantage favouring heterozygotic organisms; an instance of this.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Edmund Ford (1901–1988), geneticist.
- person-object
- person of colour
- personological
- personologist
- personology
- person-oriented
- person perception
- personpower
- personship
- person-to-person
- personëity
- persorption
- persp.
- persp
- perspection
- perspectival
- perspective
- perspective control
- perspectived
- perspective-free
- perspective glass
- perspectiveless
- perspectively
- perspective piece
- perspective plane