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Genetic distance

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-002806

The genetic divergence between two individuals, populations or species. It is commonly a statistic based on the differences in allele frequencies in separated populations, but can use other data such as the number of tandem repeats in microsatellites, DNA sequences, or even the number of mutations required to bring about the observed differences.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-002806
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesNAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (CC BY 4.0)
See alsoQuantitative genetics; Population genetics; Genetic suppression; Genetic similarity; Coefficient of relationship; Genetic erosion; Phylogeny; Genetic analysis
TranslationsSpanish: distancia genética
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-002806",
  "term": "Genetic distance",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "The genetic divergence between two individuals, populations or species. It is commonly a statistic based on the differences in allele frequencies in separated populations, but can use other data such as the number of tandem repeats in microsatellites, DNA sequences, or even the number of mutations required to bring about the observed differences.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "quantitative genetics",
    "population genetics",
    "genetic suppression",
    "genetic similarity",
    "coefficient of relationship",
    "genetic erosion",
    "phylogeny",
    "genetic analysis"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "distancia genética"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/genetic-distance/"
}

Record 2,776 of 6,798 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.