genetic drift

English

Noun

genetic drift (countable and uncountable, plural genetic drifts)

1. (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.

Translations

overall shift of allele distribution in an isolated population

• Catalan: deriva genètica f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 遺傳いでん漂變／遗传漂变 (wai⁴ cyun⁴ piu¹ bin³)

  Mandarin: 遺傳いでん漂變／遗传漂变 (yíchuán piāobiàn)

• French: dérive génétique (fr) f
• German: Gendrift (de) f
• Gujarati: જનીન વિચલન (janīn viclan)
• Italian: deriva genetica (it) f
• Welsh: symudiad genynnol m