Human Heredity: Principles and Issues
Human Heredity: Principles and Issues
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ISBN: 9781305683952
Author: Michael Cummings
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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To explain: The reason for the higher frequency of major allele for albinism in smaller populations.

Introduction: According to the Hardy-Weinberg rule, the genotypic and allelic frequency of a population would remain constant in several generations in the absence of the evolutionary change. In a smaller population, the frequency of the allele is found to be higher.

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