How Many Different Alleles Can a Gene Have

question 46

Essay

How many different alleles can a gene have?

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Definitions:

Stocks

Shares in the ownership of a company, representing a claim on the company's assets and earnings.

Composed

Pertains to being made up of several parts or elements.

Variance

A measure of how much values in a data set differ from the mean of the data set.

Binomial Distribution

A probability distribution that summarizes the likelihood of a value taking one of two independent states and is used for experiments that have two possible outcomes (success or failure).