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What is gene flow.

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Gene flow is referred as the movement of genes through gametes movement of individual organisms in and out of a population. Immigrationin which the gametes and the organisms enter the population, may have new alleles or may bring in existing allele. These existing alleles in different proportions due to imcoming alleles may alter allelic frequency of the original population. Therefore gene flow can act as a strong agent of evolution .
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