gene flow


nounEcology.
  1. the alteration of the frequencies of alleles of particular genes in a population, resulting from interbreeding with organisms from another population having different frequencies.

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First recorded in 1945–50

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gene flow

noun
  1. the movement and exchange of genes between interbreeding populations

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