Medical Definition of Balanced lethal system
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A population with non-linked, recessive alleles of a gene, where an individual who has two copies of the recessive allele and is therefore homozygous is dead, while an individual who has only one copy of it, and one copy of a different allele (and is heterozygous) survives.
(09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balanced Lethal System
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