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Balancing selection
Selection that actively maintains more than one variant of a gene in a population.


Read more about this term in the Online Textbook:
Human Evolution: Malaria, Sickle Cell Anemia, and Balancing Selection

Related Terms:
Alternative splicing
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

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Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs)
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