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  Home >> Genetics Dictionary >> Genetic Equilibrium - Genetic Load

Genetic engineering technology
Rrecombinant DNA technology.

Genetic equilibrium
The maintenance of allele frequencies from generation to generation.

Genetic illness
Sickness, physical disability, or other disorder resulting from the inheritance of one or more deleterious alleles

Genetic load

A reduction in the average fitness of the members of a population because of the deleterious genes, or gene combinations, in the population. It has many particular forms, such as “mutational load,” “segregational load,” and “recombinational load.”

 

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