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Agriculture · Q57

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 57

Q57

Sum total of deleterious genes present in species is known as

A.
Genetic advance
B.
Genetic erosion
C.
Genetic load
Answer
D.
Mutation

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
The total of deleterious genes present in species is known as Genetic load.
A genetic alteration that increases an individual's susceptibility or predisposition to a certain disease or disorder is known as a deleterious gene.
Deleterious mutation load is the main contributing factor to genetic load overall. Load depends only on the deleterious mutation rate and not on the selection coefficient.