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Price equation

Price equation proper noun: a covariance equation that provides a way to understand the effects that gene transmission and natural selection have on the proportion of genes within each new generation of a population.

Proper noun

Price equation

  1. A covariance equation that provides a way to understand the effects that gene transmission and natural selection have on the proportion of genes within each new generation of a population.

Synonyms of Price equation

Origin of Price equation

It was derived by George R. Price.

Questions about Price equation

What does Price equation mean?
Price equation means a covariance equation that provides a way to understand the effects that gene transmission and natural selection have on the proportion of genes within each new generation of a population.
What part of speech is Price equation?
Price equation is a proper noun.

Words near Price equation in the dictionary

  1. price discriminating
  2. price discrimination
  3. price discriminations
  4. price elasticity of demand
  5. price elasticity of supply
  6. Price equation
  7. price fixing
  8. price flexing
  9. price floor
  10. price floors
  11. price gouge

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