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What is meant by genetic load. Give an e...

What is meant by genetic load. Give an example.

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The existence of deletorious genes within the populations is called.genetic load. Eg: Genes for Sickle cell anaemia - The individuals homozygous for Sickle cell gene usually die early due to anaemia.
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