Genetic Variation

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Hand-drawn pea-pod characters open a gene-pool seed drawer beside purple and white pea flowers, illustrating different alleles within one species.

Genetic Variation: How to Understand Population Diversity

Imagine two plantings exposed to a fungal pathogen. One is propagated from a single susceptible clone; the other contains several heritable resistance variants. If some of those variants reduce infection, their carriers may leave more surviving offspring in the diverse planting. This is a conditiona