1. (a) The proportion of individuals in a population with a specific genotype     allele frequency     genotype frequency     gene pool     relative fitness (b) Measures the comparative contribution of each parental genotype to the pool of offspring genotypes in each generation     allele frequency     genotype frequency     gene pool     relative fitness

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