Canalisation (genetics)
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Canalisation (genetics)
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Canalisation is a measure of the ability of a population to produce the same phenotype regardless of variability of its environment or genotype. It is a form of evolutionary robustness. The term was coined in 1942 by C. H. Waddington to capture the fact that "developmental reactions, as they occur in organisms submitted to natural selection...are adjusted so as to bring about one definite end-result regardless of minor variations in conditions during the course of the reaction". He used this wor
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Measure of the ability of a population to produce the same phenotype
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canalisation_(genetics)
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2005-12-29T10:23:03Z
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2024-09-01T18:20:23Z
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