International A Level Biology / Biodiversity and conservation
Changing allele frequencies: mutation and natural selection
Edexcel International A Level Biology (YBI11), chapter 12: Biodiversity and conservation, specification point 4.20. Part of the full course.
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Allele frequency describes how common an allele is in a population. Random mutations create new alleles, and natural selection can make some alleles more common over generations.