Har·dy-Wein·berg law
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variants:
or less commonly Hardy-Weinberg principle
Definition of Hardy-Weinberg law
: a fundamental principle of population genetics: population gene frequencies and genotype frequencies remain constant from generation to generation if mating is random and if mutation, selection, immigration, and emigration do not occur
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Hardy-Weinberg law
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Har·dy-Wein·berg law
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Medical Definition of Hardy-Weinberg law
: a fundamental principle of population genetics that is approximately true for small populations and holds with increasing exactness for larger and larger populations: population gene frequencies and population genotype frequencies remain constant from generation to generation if mating is random and if mutation, selection, immigration, and emigration do not occur
— called also Hardy-Weinberg principle
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The first known use of Hardy-Weinberg law was in 1943
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