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Genetic theory provides us with insight into the changes of the genetic makeup of organisms. These insights are of particular interest in the context of conservation biology where genetic diversity is seen as one advantage of a species to survive in a changing environment. In this chapter we show how various alleles from “parents” combine into a genotype that carries those alleles and how randomness influences the resultant genetic makeup.
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Hannon, B., Ruth, M. (2014). Mating and Mutation of Alleles. In: Modeling Dynamic Biological Systems. Modeling Dynamic Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05615-9_12
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