A genetic population is basically a group of individuals of the same species (Cannabis Indica, Sativa or Ruderalis) or strain (Skunk #1 or Masterkush) in a given area whose members can breed with one another.
This means that they must share a common group of genes. This common group of genes is known as the gene pool. The gene pool contains the alleles for all the traits in the entire population. For a step in evolution-a new plant species, strain or trait to occur, some of the gene frequencies must change.
The gene frequency of an allele refers to the number of times an allele for a particular trait occurs compared to the total number of alleles for that trait in the population. Gene frequency is calculated by dividing the number of a specific type of allele by the total nunmber of alleles in the gene pool. |