Genetic Drift Definition
noun
Variation in gene frequencies in a population due to chance rather than natural selection, mutation, or immigration.
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In evolution,
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(genetics, evolutionary theory) An overall shift of allele distribution in an isolated population, due to random fluctuations in the frequencies of individual alleles of the genes.
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