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Hardy-Weinberg law

Har·dy-Wein·berg law [ hrdee wn burg làw ] or Har·dy-Wein·berg dis·tri·bu·tion


noun 
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law of population genetics: a principle of genetics stating that gene frequencies remain constant from one generation to the next if mating is random and there are no outside influences such as mutation and immigration

[Mid-20th century. After G. H. Hardy (1877-1947), British mathematician, and Wilhelm Weinberg (1862-1937), German physician]
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