Non-Technical Readers Expect

question 11

Multiple Choice

Non-technical readers expect

• A)all terms to be defined.
• B)technical data to be expressed in terms they use and understand.
• C)two versions of a technical document, one technical and one non-technical.
• D)frequent visual illustrations.

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Definitions:

Fixation

The process by which a genotype or allele reaches a frequency of 100% in a population, eliminating all other variations.

Infinite Size

A concept often used in population genetics to describe a population so large that genetic drift and sampling errors are negligible.

Landscape Genetics

An interdisciplinary field that combines landscape ecology and population genetics to understand how geographical and environmental features affect gene flow and genetic variation.

Spatial Statistics

A subfield of statistics that deals with analyzing spatially referenced data, taking into account the topological, geometric, and geographic properties that might affect the observed measurements.