Definition of Genetic drift

1. Noun. (context: genetics evolutionary theory) An overall shift of allele distribution in an isolated population, due to random fluctuations in the frequencies of individual alleles of the genes. ¹



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Medical Definition of Genetic drift

1. The random change of the occurance of a particular gene in a population, genetic drift is thought to be one cause of speciation when a group oforganisms is separated from its parent population. (09 Oct 1997)

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