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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The relative difference between the theoretically most fit genotype within a population and the average genotype.
- noun The aggregate of deleterious genes that are carried, mostly hidden, in the genomes of a population and may be transmitted to descendants.
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