How often an allele occurs in a gene pool relative to the other alleles for that gene is known as _______

• Correct Answer: allele frequency
• genetic rate
• allele succession
• genomic frequency

Explanation: Allele frequency is how often an allele occurs in a gene pool relative to the other alleles for that gene. Look at the example in Table below . The population in the table has 100 members. In a sexually reproducing species, each member of the population has two copies of each gene. Therefore, the total number of copies of each gene in the gene pool is 200. The gene in the example exists in the gene pool in two forms, alleles A and a . Knowing the genotypes of each population member, we can count the number of alleles of each type in the gene pool. The table shows how this is done.

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