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 [-- gene pool --]

 
defined: The sum total of genes, with all their variations, possessed by a particular species at a particular time.

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Dr. Robert Nussbaum, of the National Human Genome Research Institute's Laboratory of Genetic Disease Research, defines gene pool.

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  allele, chromosome, gene

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